Incompetent decision making, reaction-based management, zero strategic thinking - Anonymous employee TCC, LLC Employee Review

1.0
28 Aug 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The office itself is quite nice, and many of the people who work there give 110% every day.

Cons

As a former top leader at this company, I have seen both its best attributes and its worst. Unfortunately the negatives far outweigh the positives at TCC. Executive leadership consistently makes poor business decisions that negatively affect their clients at Agora Publishing, the employees, but most importantly the customers calling in. The training provided is woefully inadequate and the agents are not equipped with the level of technology they need to perform this incredibly complex job. There are sets of business processes layered on top of each place that defy any semblance of logic. This makes things incredibly difficult to manage, with ever-changing rules and policies that happen only because their processes are so inefficient in the first place. Management is constantly "putting out fires" and bandaging self-inflicted wounds. This leads to constant course-corrections, over reactive policies, and more poor business decisions. I also worry about the long term health of this business. I dealt directly with the clients who pay for TCC's services, and their level of satisfaction was perpetually very low. They pay a premium price for outsourced customer service, but TCC was incapable of delivering a premium service due to the issues listed above. Their largest clients are constantly on the verge of ending their partnership with TCC, which would lead to layoffs/downsizing almost immediately. The spectre of clients leaving is what leads to the strong, often emotional over reactions by management. Because of this, the cycle keeps repeating itself. But at some point, the clients really will leave, and TCC won't be able to maintain its bloated budget.

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TCC, LLC Response
9y
Note from TCC, LLC President: We appreciate you taking the time to provide feedback around your experience at TCC. TCC has been in business for 4 years and we continue to make course adjustments as we grow. Growth is hard. All strong businesses modify their business models based on growing and shrinking needs of the business. That's just what you do to stay in the game. TCC remains – no, has become a strong, viable business. When we began the reorganization of the company, we started with the top leadership team. With the help of an independent consultant, we took several steps backwards and realized we needed the right people at the helm, on the leadership team. After all, everything that happens in a company happens top-down. We are dedicated to ensuring we have the “right people in the right positions". I agree at the beginning of 2016 the (then) leadership team was fractured, each person on their own mission, without collaboration. Because of this, the company struggled with low morale and less than delighted clients. Then we made a pretty dramatic change, the leadership team of 7 became a lean focused leadership team of 4. The current leadership of the company works not in traditional "silos" or within boxes on an org chart, we work in circles, we call them communities. You see, it's not Mr. E's Operations and it's not Mrs.T’s Client Services, it's a community of people who practice leadership by example and collaborate at the highest level to ensure we are taking care of our employees who take care of our clients. At our last companywide town hall meeting, I was moved to tears by the positive comments and kudos being passed among the teams – all positions! This was dramatically different from the one prior. At this meeting, though, someone asked me "what is your proudest moment?" and I had to say "Right now. Right now I'm so proud of where we are and how far we've come in just months". Yes, we worked tirelessly but we got it right! One of our staffing partners told me, "Ro, I'm really proud of your company. Most call centers start out with a bang, everything is hunky dory and right about now they start to fail and flounder. You did it the right way. You failed first, you learned and now you're on your way." We have more work to do and we will continue on our employee centric, customer focused path.

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Pros

Compensation and benefits fair Good workplace culture. Management is open and available and reasonable. Time off is standard for industry. Professional development and growth opportunities (cross-training). Company host employee engagement activities.

Cons

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TCC, LLC Response
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Thank you for sharing such positive feedback about your experience with us. We're delighted to hear that you found our compensation and benefits fair, appreciated our workplace culture, and felt management was open and reasonable. It's great that you found value in our professional development and employee engagement activities, too. We appreciate your suggestions for enhancing learning opportunities and employee compensation and benefits. We'll certainly take this into consideration as we strive to be the best option for our employees.
1.0
13 Jul 2022
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Pros

Every Sunday off. Offer remote work for evening shift employees. Self paced training&development program. Great benefits. CEO is very hands on and present.

Cons

Offer a rotational Saturday shift that becomes every Saturday with no notice. High turn over/no staff. Does not disclose during hiring process that you will be required to make upsells/cross sells on most calls. Training is inadequate/too short. Micromanage everything you do. Supervisors are not well trained and rarely provide helpful assistance. Company culture is completely unprofessional/toxic. The pay may be higher than some jobs, but is still not enough in comparison to similar jobs (and they’ll repeatedly tell you how you should be thankful because the pay is so good-it’s not, fast food employees are paid similar/higher wages). Unless a customer asks to speak with a supervisor to tell them how great you are- YOU WILL NEVER BE RECOGNIZED FOR A JOB WELL DONE. Will say Customer Ambassadors are the front lines of their service- what they mean is that you are expendable and supposedly easily replaced-(literally had a supervisor say I was expendable and easily replaced!)

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TCC, LLC Response
3y
Thank you for sharing your feedback here. Our Customer Ambassadors are indeed our front lines of our service and therefore, every single Ambassador is essential to the continued success of our business and we are sure to let them know how valuable they are every chance we get. At TCC, we value honesty and transparency, so we are sure to make all hours and shifts known day one, but sometimes changes happen last minute and we do our best to communicate these as clearly as we can. If you want to share more feedback, we encourage you to please reach out to our CEO directly, as you well know, she is very hands on and present within the company and will be more than happy to address your concerns.
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