Find another place to work. - Customer Care Specialist TELUS Employee Review

1.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The only reason I stayed with the company for as long as I did was because of the benefit package. TELUS paid for most of the benefits, which meant very little had to actually come out of my pay.

Cons

My problems with this company are numerous. 1. The department was extremely understaffed and because of this, I suffered with overtime many, many times. I was typically working 6 days a week, at 8 hours a day for 5 days and 12 hours for the sixth day. I was on-call frequently and wasn't even paid some kind of premium for being on-call. 2. There was virtually no room for advancement. I tried multiple times to move within the organization, but management did everything they could to keep me where I was. I had been promised promotions for over 2 and a half years without ever seeing it come because it was "always the wrong time". 3. We rarely ever got any performance feedback. Always being left in the dark about how you're doing your job is very irritating. 4. Lack of training was a huge drawback. They merged my department with another, expected us to do their job for them even though they didn't need to help us out, and did not provide the training needed to actually be able to help them. 5. They expected us to also help out another department because they were understaffed also, even though we were too, but then gave us crap when we didn't or the other department didn't meet our objectives for the year.

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Pros

Flexibility of hours and freedom of location.

Cons

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Pros

Work from home and create your own schedule. Paid training. There is an option for therapy through the company.

Cons

They are hiring, but there aren't enough tasks to make the minimum of 10 hours a week. There are no raises and no promotions. They take a long time to respond to emails, if they respond at all. The only benefit is a 401 (k). $14 is the pay rate, and one can only work 20 hours a week, if there are enough tasks. The past couple of exams for training set one up to fail them. I have been doing this job long enough to know this. They constantly threaten your job, which really affects morale and confidence. There used to be bonuses, but they haven't done them in a long time. There were times we were given permission to work up to 35 hours for the week, but again, it has been a long time. Last one, they didn't have enough tasks to allow for workers to get to 25+. They also offered stock options, but they ended that as well. They made a major mistake on my end and threatened me unless I complied. Eventually got an email that they were wrong, but they didn't apologize. I saw they were hiring freelancers with a maximum of 25 hours a week. I wrote to management and was told the rest of us were only staying at 20. I am currently seeking other employment. There are other companies that do the same work with higher pay and actual benefits. This was once a good job, but once Telus took over, it has been downhill. I would not recommend this company anymore. I'm starting to wonder if this isn't a sinking ship.

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