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My advice to people interested in working at #STARTEK as a #Csr ...

I worked at Startek in IN for a few months, the job was for a call center, so that much I understood. Training was ok at best, there were too many things changing all the time, between staff, and the content. You got 3 weeks of classroom training, then 3 weeks in what was called A bay. During A bay, you were learning how to talk on the phone, navigate the computer, answer questions, and educate the customer. We weren't sales, we were the long distance department, but we had this stupid thing that no matter why they called in we had to use to try to sale them something. I hated it because everything was going great then I had to try to sale them somethong...a great call turned into a bad customer exp. Because we were forced to try to sale them something. If we didn't use it, they 'coached' us on it, in other words bitched at us for not using it. Moving on, after A bay they turned you loose into production....you have very little understanding of what's going on, then it's like they left you! Most of the leadership was toxic, you would spend 10-15 min waiting to get a question answered, then again get bitched at for you hold times and aht times. You could never get a straight answer from anyone, sometimes the same question had 5 different answers, consistencey was a word never heard of...the crap that they wanted you to look up in this information piece of crap was often wrong, and it was totally useless, it was at best a bunch of nonsense! I was fired from there because I gave information my supervisor told me to give, which turned out to be wrong. The day I was fired, my supervisor and I had to meet with the main guy...he asked me why i didn't do this or that, I told him I asked my supervisor and told him what she told me. He looked at her, and she bold face lied...I never told him that! She even tried to claim that she wasn't even there that day.....didn't bother to stick up for me, nothing. I was fired afte that meeting. Needless to say the leadership was very toxic, you had zero support, they never told you good job unless it was a kudos from a customer, other then that, no matter what they'd find something to bitch about. I was so glad to be away from that place! I have never been to work where it's been so damn toxic. My best advice is to stay FAR away!

over 8 years ago
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