I Still Have PTSD From Working Here - Customer Service Representative (CSR) Northwestern Mutual Employee Review

1.0
Apr 2, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

We were so short staffed between Christmas and New Years of 2021 that if we worked all those days and did not call in sick, we got a $500 bonus. The day that I gave my 2 weeks notice was the best day ever!

Cons

This was the worst job ever!! On the phone all day and Management tracking you and listening to every single word that you said and then analyzing you on those words. 4-5 months of training on a subject that I knew NOTHING about and then they expect you to be proficient on all your phone calls! Forget about taking your PTO in your first year, because you are bottom of the seniority and everyone above you gets to choose first. It is a joke!! Then you are only given 20 minutes a day to finish up your cases from the 55+ calls that you take a day. Ain' NO free lunch worth the stress of this job!!! You get graded on your phone calls and then get a coaching session and they tell you everything that you did wrong. But sure do not give you any pats on the back at what you did right!! The coach's and managers are completely rude and condescending! This job is very bully like. I would not recommend this job to my worst enemy!! When my training class started, we had over 50 of us and after it was over, almost half had already dropped out. I sure wish I would have, because then I would not have PTSD from staying for over a year.

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If you desire independence, income, and impact, this is the place for you. You will grow more than you have ever grown. You will help others and put their needs above yours. You will build a purposeful life by design. You will have a world class development team and support systems for you to succeed. You will have enterprise value in what you are building. It is YOUR business. You will be able to sell it one day or pass it down to a successor. You will create passive income for yourself. You will have the ability to be with your children in the morning and family time at night and on the weekends.

Cons

You have to build your own book of business. That is not easy. If anything is worth having in this life, it will be hard. To get in shape is hard, to create financial freedom is hard, to build a business is hard. Living a life without purpose or meaning is also hard. Choose your hard. The worst thing that happens in this busienss is someone telling you no. Compared to the men and women fighting for our country abroad or patrolling the streets, laborers working outside in the heat, getting told no while in a fancy office, dressed nice, and in the AC, its not that bad. I'll take that environment any day. If you don't mind being told no from time to time, then you will be fine. You can build an amazing life for yourself.

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