Work At Home Customer Care Agent - WAH CC Agent Alorica Employee Review

3.0
16 Feb 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work at home while earning a salary, pays on time, no issues receiving pay, pick up hours as you wish, so many agents you do not have to worry about releasing hours. Someone always needs more hours.

Cons

The employee does not matter, disciplinary actions when nothing has been done wrong, employee has no recourse. Horrible management team, performance evals you are required to sign they say you can dispute and you can, but no one listens or admits they are wrong. Hours removed when PIN received, but if they find it is an error, hours are gone and they say "OH Well." They pay you premium hours salary when there is a desperate need. But, if you are in a stat where minimum is over $8 an hours, your premium salary is then factored in and you only receive the premium, minus the minimum. (premium offered is $10 hr. Your state minimum is $9 hour. You receive only $1 increase because they figure the minimum should be taken out of the premium and you get the difference. Very very unfair. Chat agents are horrible. They do not read the entire question or issues before responding. Then if you ask for clarifications, they get rude. There is always a post "Not for Chat" even when the question or concern is call taking related. You have to work with a maximum time on call donsidered, but if you have a question, you must then call a pal because chat is for basic instructions, not all questions. Calling/dialing a pal is hit or miss. Not always are there enough pals on line, the dial button may or may not work/function, the pals,some of them are rude or know less than you.

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1.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lunch lasts for 1 hour. Some managers are nice. Compensation is not bad for a call center job.

Cons

Contradictory set of info provided during training compared to later on, and sometimes you get penalized for providing honest information that you aren't prohibited from giving out. There's about seven million rules that you are expected to follow, and many of them are dumb. Some managers are annoying/jerks. Management gets really frustrated that customers leave from conversations dissatisfied even though we are literally calling them as Collections Agents for a credit card company to tell them they are thousands of dollars in debt. If you get 2 Compliance fails they fire you (and Compliance fails aren't just for regulatory things the company can get sued for). Expected to follow regulations that do not even apply to our particular company. (Newsflash! HIPAA does not apply to credit card companies!). Now if you get 4 dissatisfaction surveys from customers they fire you. (Getting fired at this job is extremely easy! I nearly got fired when I was reluctant to take a transfer call I was NOT authorized to take and upper management said I wasn't being a "good teammate" because of my reluctance to take the call.) Dissatisfaction surverys are also ridiculously hard to dispute. Customers are extremely horrible, foul-mouthed, stupid, vindictive and nasty. You get like 2 hours of PTO per month, which is about 2 days out of the entire year. No holiday pay - they will just send you home with no pay on Christmas. People steal your lunch if you put it in the company fridge. There's an oppressive atmosphere of complete misery that hangs over the whole building. If the company decides to move on to a different call center, they call a townhall meeting the day that it happens without any advance notice to let all the call center agents that they are being furloughed or let go. Also, they have confirmed finding a bed bug problem in the building. Run, run away!

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