Temp and stay a temp or leave - Customer Service Representative Xcel Energy Employee Review

2.0
Dec 15, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Most jobs outside of the call center pay well with Xcel and they have a very high retention rate it seems.

Cons

The call center is a revolving door job and the management seems to be OK with that. They pay the new employees 10.00/hr and hire on as a temp so no benefits. They told me that if I reached all my goals after 6 months of employment that I could take a test and receive benefits and become full time. I blew all of my goals away and was told that benefits and full time was on hold indefinitely. The quarter before Xcel had revenue of just over 8 billions dollars. I can't imagine that their lowest paid employees cannot get an extra dollar an hour and some benefits.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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