Competitive stressful environment -- everyone acts touchy-feely, but advancement procedure & evaluations are cut-throat. - Manager Createspace Employee Review

2.0
Feb 8, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Relatively good management salaries for the area, especially when hired into a management roll (not quite as much when advanced from within). Benefits are very good, even providing some not required by law. Nice new offices with outdoor break area, walking path around the retention pond, separate smoking area (outdoors), small break areas on each floor and larger "cafeteria" room on ground level, monthly perks from HR/employee relations group like free pizza or bagels. Healthy food options available in the "cafeteria" machines, although they are pricey.

Cons

Overtime is a given unless you're an hourly customer service phone answerer. Customer service has hourly goals for number of calls handled, length of calls, length of customer wait time, and it's all tracked and used during evaluations to weed out the lowest performers -- who are put on a ridiculously difficult-to-accomplish performance improvement plan so they will eventually quit rather than be fired. Quality isn't considered -- such as how helping some customers might take longer, but they get the help they need and don't have to call back the next hour/day. It's all about answering the call fast, getting off the phone fast, and answering the next call fast. Bar is constantly rising based on numbers -- so a great performer from last year might maintain their level but still fall below the bar this year cause others have performed faster. Management looks at it as keeping the best and brightest workforce and continuous improvement. In reality, they are keeping the fastest, the most likely to brown-nose, and the least likely to assist customer to 100% satisfaction. It feels like survival-of-the-fastest, dog-eat-dog, and throwing people under the bus to make yourself look better.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

You get 40 hours of pto and 40 hours of UPT if you're paid hourly (which I was) basic account coordinator role starts off around $15.00 an hour. You can do OT. You also get stock vestments every year and at 4 years you cash in. Depending on the stock value at the time it could be upwards of $40k or more.

Cons

The members or clients they serve are horrible. They are uneducated and require a lot of hand holding and yell often. They actually have every right to yell because we lie to them a lot. We lie about deadlines or when we'll have stuff back but we never do. People will call every day multiple times a day and feel as if they are some sort of rock star writers. Some are grateful but most are horribly rude. I had an escalation every single day. The service offered was too complicated and too changing for the customers. The customers took it out on you and had no clue what they were doing. Management straight up said to me, "They didn't care how hard my job was." It's hard because they're making it hard and they could do so many things to make it better.

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