Pros: cheap cellphone plan, great benefits, tuition reimbursement, discount on phones, healthcare
Cons: short breaks, can only take them when you were scheduled, stressful workplace, unattainable goals by the company
- A typical day at work would be getting to work and starting with reading all the new policies and promotions that had changed from the previous day, logging into my phone at start helping each customer one at a time, from upgrading phones, to understanding their bills or just wanting to pay them, troubleshoot an issue with a phone or their bill. up
– more... sale to what we had available for them and making sure they were on the best possible service.
- I learned how to use all kinds of computer soft wears, I learned how to become a great sales man, to be a leader, a supervisor, a goal achiever, and to provide world class customer service.
- I learned how to manage teams when needed. Any time we were low staffed i would volunteer to help with supporting teams. i learned how to manage my own stats so that i could contribute to my team to help us be the best.
- I learned how to work with co-workers due to being on a team with 15 people and every single team members stats effects the whole team. I would do anything i could that would help my co-workers from sharing my ideas and success, to listening to their calls and helping them with what ever was needed. We had to change teams every 6 months for a realignment, so i had 15 new team members every 6 months for 6 years.
- The hardest part of the job was dealing with customer that were angry over issues that happen in the past, and will not let you try and help them when you know you could, they would just be so angry they wouldn't want to deal with it anymore. Also a stat called IOCR (one call resolution) if you talked to a customer and they called back for what ever reason within 2 days it would effect your numbers and they made this a metric you had to meet for bonus's, and once they did that no one would be able to attain the goal the company set. Because we had to control over what the customer failed to mention on the call or forgot to say they needed, and then they would call back to get it done later or just flat out didn't like what you were offering and felt they would get a better deal by hanging up and calling back to talk to a different person.
- The most enjoyable part of the job was you got the opportunity to speak with people all around the U.S. and for myself i was very knowledgeable when it came to the company offering incentives for stats or upgrading customers to certain handsets. I loved it! when i knew i was going to be rewarded for my hard work i would strive to push myself that much more. I was in the top 10 reps in the nation every month for selling certain handsets within a certain time. – less