Sweat Shop environment - Customer Care Professional American Express Employee Review

1.0
Mar 16, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits and insurance (HSA)

Cons

Worked for AX 16 years. Unreasonable metric goals, unable to take breaks without lowering your performance percentage. Micro-manage employees. No way to climb the ladder without brown-nosing with leadership. No time to learn new policies, expected to take training in between calls or small window at beginning of shift. Total sweat shop environment that does not value the customer-facing employees. The only reason reps stay is for the pay & benefits. Stressful!

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Cons

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Pros

- Complimentary lunch and starbucks everyday - On-site clinic for basic check ups - Hybrid

Cons

you will be taking phone calls every minute of the day. There will come a time where you feel like at the bottom of the world. You will ask yourself "is my role in life to help people reset their password online and assist them in logging in?" You cannot use the bathroom whenever you want, they have time coding that if you "abuse" them you will be flagged and subject to discipline. You have to give world class service but at the same time rush them off the phone or else you are not getting paid a good bonus. You will quickly find yourself gasping for air and time to relax when you take 50+ calls a day , you will feel drained. When is finally time to move up there is a high chance you will be paid less than you're current role as there are no bonuses in higher roles.

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