Contract Workers are Treated Like Second Class Citizens - Customer Support Specialist MasterClass Employee Review

1.0
16 Oct 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You can work from home. Thats about it. New manager on the support team is clueless and seems lost. Making changes for the sake of making changes to show that his hire was needed. It wasn't.

Cons

As a contract worker they view you as less than part of the time and easily replaceable. They have a gigantic new office but there is no place to set up the customer support team. Everyone else works remotely, so there is absolutely no way to feel like you're part of the team, other than a slack channel. They don't even provide a laptop to do your job on. I had to use my own personal laptop. The went out of their way to exclude contract workers from the company holiday party, when they hired us specifically for the holiday season. Initial contract was only 3 months, but they kept asking me to stay on month to month. Approached them repeatedly and expressed interest in becoming a full time employee, but they do not plan to hire internally for CS. Found out on the 1 year anniversary of working for Masterclass that my contract is not being renewed, and am being replaced with lower priced contractors. I was already making less than a living wage in San Francisco. This company has the money to invest in their customer support team, but they refuse.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

None whatsoever, zilch, zero, insubstantial, empty, hollow, shallow, vapid, flimsy, unsubstantial, meaningless, and vacuous

Cons

Masterclass is a joke, get some notable names and do short videos and then they can make cancellation the biggest headache ever and keep attempting to steal money out of your account. It’s hype beast culture mixed with corporate greed. Want to see an actor who thinks they are gods gift to man but really is the product of nepotism and luck tell you how to “make it in Hollywood,” all while real people struggle, middle class is shrinking, the wealth gap is ever-widening, one man has more money than over 55% of the population of this country (and you’ll probably interview him too, for a “class”) and all the while masterclass is continually trying to charge your credit card? Then masterclass is the perfect service for you! This surface is surface-level fake classes and celebrity worship culture. They aren’t classes, they are ego-centered, masturbatory, self-indulgent, narcissistic videos that is a pretty solid metaphor for the regression of society as a whole. Everyone is entitled, self-centered, cogs with no empathy. And this company is part of the problem.

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