- Supervisors can range from very accommodating and hands-off to outright incompetent and overbearing. There is no consistency so this one comes down to luck.
- Game-changing decisions are rolled out with what seems like a remarkably low level of coordination or thought. General support will often find themselves trying to come up for excuses for poorly handled and/or broken rollouts.
- Obsession over metrics with a 'leadership' body that seems remarkably out of touch with anybody below their pay grade. Very "salesy" vibe in non-sales roles with a "take it or leave it" approach to handling complaints or offering a solution to extraordinarily low morale.
- High burnout rate, leadership seems ok with this and is planning on leaning on this high attrition as they role out more and more off-shoring of their support staff.
- A sort of cultural schizophrenia as the company moves rapidly to becoming another generic large company while still flirting with a startup feel.
- Everything breaks. Constantly. This one may actually be a "pro" as it gives you time away from some of the most vile/abusive callers you could ever dream of, but it ends up just producing even more abusive and violently angry callers.
- If you started on the phones you will likely be stuck on the phones. The days of people moving up seem long behind this company - CSRs are disposable.
- Incredible imbalance of effort on behalf of, well, everybody. Coming up with creative ways of slacking off is a necessary survival strategy.
- Training is patchwork and doesn't last long enough
- Website gradually catching up to 2013 with bits and pieces with all the nostalgia of 2007.
- Odd and inflexible scheduling with an arcane time-off request process.
- Making mental calculations of 'benefits' versus 'self respect'