System Issues for Eons - Customer Service Representative PENFED Credit Union Employee Review

1.0
13 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pay and benefits are decent Some managers are amazing and do everything in their power to help you succeed

Cons

-The system issues are insane. Reviews tried to warn me and I thought they were exaggerating but they are not. The members call in so angry about the online system and app not working, and you have to take the brunt of it. IT is just as stressed as customer service is -When they are understaffed, managers pressure employees not to use their personal time for restroom breaks due to the call volume -Managers are allowed to make their own metrics for employees that are more strict than the company's metrics -The PTO is divided into sick time and personal, and you absolutely cannot exchange the two and can only use it in increments of 15 min but you don't accrue it in increments of 15. You will have leftover PTO that's hard to work into usable time off -You get paid in 15 min increments and not minute for minute -You need to start signing in at least 10 minutes before your shift starts because it takes that long to log in sometimes but you don't get paid for it -Some managers are very close to upper management and if you get stuck with a micromanager, there is really no one willing to help you - pretty standard for call center environments -Different call centers get different perks, they are not all universal

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5.0
25 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Awesome place and people - complex and large finance operation and balance sheet yet still small enough to make an impact and build up solutions from the ground floor - creative place!

Cons

Sometimes can be stretched for more resources

1.0
8 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Starting salary is competitive -benefits look good on paper -variety of shifts available -occasionally snacks are provided

Cons

-inadequate tools to perform job duties -understaffing makes it difficult to get time off thus employees are deprived of compensation they earned -management actively asks for feedback then does not follow through or does the exact opposite -employees are constantly asked to cross-train for additional duties, but these additional duties do not come with an increase in compensation (they skirt around this by putting "additional duties as assigned" in the job descriptions, but at what point does it become unreasonable for employees to continue to absorb these duties without an increase) -bringing concerns to chain of command is ineffective -policies change without notice resulting in employees being reprimanded for providing old information -conflicting information surrounding policies is also an issue -the QA department does not seem to know which agents are responsible for which tasks and will penalize them for not performing a task for which they are not responsible -When you attempt to take concerns to upper management, they try to convince you that you are the problem, not the culture of the company -CEO and upper management's attitude seems to be, "if you don't like how we do things, then you're welcome to leave" -upper management has been known to retaliate when an employee tries to bring issues to their attention -lower management runs out of excuses for why things are so bad, so they absorb their subordinates' frustrations for a time and then eventually avoid employees that complain. I imagine this is very frustrating for them too

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