Customer Service - Work from home - Customer Service Representative U-Haul Employee Review

1.0
Jun 30, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Being able to work from home is nice and during the summer you get a lot of hours.

Cons

There's too many to name but I'll name to big ones: -No one cares. Seriously. No one cares about customers, no one cares about helping, managers won't even respond to you most of the time. -99% of the calls that come in are people complaining and you feel sorry for most of them because the majority of complaint calls, are customers that have been messed over by the scheduling system. So about 99% of the company's problems could be solved if they just tried to be somewhat organized. Oh and no matter how hard you try to help a customer, managers don't care. They'll just tell you "tell them to call back tomorrow" or "they'll have to wait for someone else to call". -No one will take responsibility for ANYTHING. -Training is horrible. They teach you the bare minimum and then send you out on phones and say that managers will be available via instant messenger if you need help. The first month, you don't know any answers to customer questions so you reach out to the managers (like they told you to) and half the time they don't respond to you. -Other reps will just hang up on people or transfer them to you as a default which really makes the customers mad. -Dealer locations don't care about the company and bad mouth it all the time or tell customer's to take off or will even yell at you. They ALWAYS overcharge customers too. -Pay is super low and you'll get scheduled 11 hour shifts during the summer with a 30 min lunch break and a 15.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Zero Work-Life Balance: Your personal life is virtually non-existent here. Between working incredibly long hours without overtime pay and the constant pressure to be connected, you can never truly clock out. Unrealistic Availability Expectations: The owner (Joe) requires your personal phone number to be available to anyone, at any time. You are expected to answer work calls during your off-hours, completely erasing the boundary between work and home. Lack of Management Support: U-Haul focuses entirely on the customer at the absolute expense of the employee. Management routinely allows customers to curse at and verbally abuse frontline associates without ever stepping in or backing up their staff. Flawed Technology: The internal booking and rental systems crash on a weekly basis. This leaves associates stranded, forced to repeatedly apologize to frustrated customers because the tech simply doesn't work. Poor Communication: Corporate-level communication is completely dysfunctional, making it incredibly difficult to get answers or support when things go wrong on the floor.

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