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LanguageLine Solutions

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2.9

38% would recommend to a friend

(296 total reviews)

Simon Yoxon-Grant

35% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

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1.0
Aug 10, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

If you have no other work opportunity it is very comfortable to stay at home and waiting for their calls. You will be exposed to lot's of different situations in a very safe way. They usually pay on time, and apparently fairly, in my impression. Flexibility: you can decide over your schedule. If you start working with the cons in mind, it may be a useful learning experience.

Cons

Even before the IT Dept. took over the company, around the end of last year, it was kind Kafkaian experience working for them. There was no more communication between the company and the interpreters than the paycheck, reproval and eventual training. Since the IT took over it is almost a hallucinatory experience. They are clueless regarding the work and characteristics of interpreters, but they created a "sophisticated system" that classify the interpreters and the calls. the new system is completely dysfunctional. In addition to their incompetence, they treat interpreters as blue collar, uneducated workforce - they only have management experience in that type practices. They send out nonsense e-mails; a smart fifth grader would understand that those have meaning and real content. They created the complete chaos and financial hardship in the life of hundreds of interpreters The accounting system is not transparent: no list of calls that you could compare with your notes, but this is the least. The head of IT Dept considers himself a visionary. Hitler considered himself too...

1.0
Jul 26, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

- Can work on your own time (if you are a contractor) - Minimal travel: work from home - Some training provided - You get a job: better than nothing.

Cons

- You are stuck at home: basically there was no holiday or vacation offered by the company. First day of orientation, I was told the company works 24/7. Hence, if you are scheduled to work on holidays, you can change your preference but it is not guaranteed that you won't work on holidays. - No vacation paid, if you would like to take the time off, you have to plan ahead and use up your UTO (unpaid time off), which is very limited. You get 3 days off after 3 months and 10 days off after 6 months. - Minimal health benefits to satisfy the Obama mandate. Even if you are an employee, the "health benefit" was offered without any employer subsidize. - Lack of true support from management: there was not a direct employer to oversee any problem arises with employees. If there is any problem, the employee would have to contact to the respective department that handle the problem - Rigid schedule: while an employee has the theoretical rights of changing schedule (approval is continent and is based on business needs). No one knows what the "business needs" are and there is not a possibility to negotiate for a different schedule if you are stuck on some commitments. Three times I attempted to ask for a schedule change, three times I was rejected and told that at this moment, we appreciate your valuable coverage as it is. - Vague commitment to serve and explain from management - Vague payroll structure and I had no idea how they pay us or if all the minutes were added up correctly.

1.0
Jun 30, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Able to work from home.

Cons

They pay minimum wage, no benefits, no response from the managers, a lot of technical problems, unsolved issues with payroll, and nobody cares.

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