Toxic Work Environment for ASL Interpreters - Video Remote Interpreter CyraCom Employee Review

1.0
Apr 4, 2024
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Pros

Pay was competitive, although they offered bonuses that implied high turnover.

Cons

This is a highly micro-managed environment. Training is verbal-only for the ASL department, and when there are misunderstandings they will blame you for "not writing it down." This includes expectations such as login, break times, vacation time, retirement management, etc. Managers will cold call you and ask you to share your screen to make sure you've arranged all your program windows exactly right. Managers are passive aggressive and closed to feedback. If they have a meeting with you to discuss feedback, they can be aggressive and not on your side. Even if you had a legitimate reason, like an urgent bathroom issue, they will double down that you should never transfer calls out. Bathroom breaks are maxed at 5 minutes per hour, and taking one every hour is highly discouraged. Management prioritizes customer needs over yours and will not defend you if you have an incident on a call. They also expect you to get dozens of state certifications and will ask you to give your passwords to them for accounts like RID.org. I also caught management storing my social security number in a Word document. They do not document communications well, so if you are asked to do something they will still micromanage you as if you hadn't completed it. If you text them they might act like they never received it. Overall, this was a stressful, unreasonable team to work with.

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5.0
Feb 25, 2026
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Pros

Flexible working hours. Will accommodate weekends schedule.

Cons

High call volume from different industries, which requires a broad knowledge from an interpreter.

5.0
Dec 5, 2025
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Pros

In all of my professional career, the IT work here is the most laid back I have ever been with. Sadly, the fun was short-lived after we were sold out when the company was acquired by its rival Propio. They laid off the entire IT folks, dismantling this competition, retaining only less than ten from the whole organization. But it was a pleasure while it lasted. Too bad because their folks were easy going and management is mediocre but I learned a lot, plus it was what I needed in my situation, where I had to multitask working while taking care of personal matters, so it was a bonus.

Cons

Nothing really complicates my tenure here except some projects are really slow in implementation, lacking clear requirements and at some point I was shoved into something where there was really no discussion at all about a project and you just have to dig into it but I have experience so it was no sweat for me at all. There was also a point where I heard a lie about a project being complete but when I started working on it I just realized it was not even started at all and the other is not even deployed or existing so there you go I just had to keep silent and work on completing it. Plus Propio conned us by giving us false hope into thinking we get severance pay but it is not really severance pay instead they just tapped into the our state unemployment benefit and made it look like it is a severance pay. Unemployment benefit is not severance pay.

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