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Child Support Officer Call center --Avoid!! - Child Support Officer Texas Attorney General Employee Review

2.0
Apr 10, 2015
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Pros

Helping to ensure children receive custodial support. Working for the state. Descent benefits such as medical insurance and leave.

Cons

Where to start.... Micro-managing Lied to about work environment: People do not leave because they retire. They leave because of horrible conditions. Hire turnover rate. Impossible daily quotas such as 80 calls per day. You cannot adequately help a person with this time. Management having favorites and unprofessional calling each other "friend" and "mom" to the Top manager. Hard to take time off even if you have a doctor's note. Hard to even go to a doctor's appointment. Impossible to transfer to another area. Worst job ever! 95% of calls will be disgruntled because they do not realize how employees are set up for failure by being overextended. Expected to be on phones 24\7 at desk with no bathroom break. Only get two fifteen minute breaks and hour lunch. Expected to use leave if clock in one minute late. Overall abusive environment ita bad enough dealing with high call volume and then horrible management. Employees who hang up on customers are praised for high call volume. Low pay for education requirements - prefer people with bachelors degree at least.

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Pros

Benefits, people are nice, location is good.

Cons

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3.0
Jun 9, 2026
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Pros

Biggest pro is independence.As a government agency, everything is geared towards efficiency and there's pros and cons to that. One pro is that you aren't really micromanaged in any way--you are simply given cases, and you are expected to run with them. You have an attorney supervisor with whom you should regularly meet, and mine just wanted general updates on cases, but otherwise you are on your own. Salary is ok, but much much less than a private firm. Realistically, the salary is not worth it unless you live really close to the office--you can find remote jobs that pay more. The upside are the state benefits, including a pension if you work 5+ years (the OAG has high turnover because people find better opportunities at private firms).

Cons

Facilities suck. The building is old. The office furniture is old. The kitchen is gross. If you are in the General Litigation Division, you're mainly doing defense of agencies/officials, so it's not politicized--but you may get pulled into the occassional political pet project/culture issue of Ken Paxton, and the office is run by his underlings (think Federalist Society type attorneys). Although they'll have you focus on an area of law, you'll get random cases too that you have never dealt with (i.e., family law, custody etc.). And you are expected to just get it done. There's no training resources of any sort, so you have to rely on other attorneys. Luckily, everyone, staff and attorneys, are very nice. They try to promote work life balance, knowing the pay is lower, but there will be times where they are understaffed and you have to work a weekend here and there.

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