Expectations! - Collections Agent Advantis Employee Review

5.0
14 Apr 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Pros: Really friendly place. Supportive atmosphere. Supportive environment to work. Supportive management. Excellent promotion prospects. As a disabled employee and with others in my cohort who represent various different groups, I’m happy to say it’s a very relaxed and supportive place to work. I can’t see myself leaving anytime soon .

Cons

Some of the cons on previous reviews hint that those behind the reviews haven’t taken in to account how difficult the job can be. Don’t walk in to this job expecting friendly chats on the phone or expect to sit out on calls. Your job is literally to take calls and some of them will be difficult due to the nature of the job. I’ve worked in a government call centre with far stricter expectations and treatment that amounted to indirect discrimination. I have experienced the opposite at Advantis. I knew exactly what I was getting in to with the role at Advantis so angry calls are not a shock to me. All call centres have targets, expectations, timed breaks etc, this isn’t a job you can just coast through, there are formal & clear expectations so it’s a bit unfair to complain about timed breaks and targets when those are the norm.

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4.0
23 Dec 2021
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Pros

Staff was friendly and helpful.

Cons

Chart system is a little dated

1.0
30 Oct 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Sorry, none are currently available at this present time.

Cons

You will begin 'employment' with Advantis as a confident, articulate, dogged individual with a high level of self-esteem. You will leave as a fragile, discriminated against, nebulous being with low levels of self-esteem after being a victim of pathological, mental and emotional dissection by the unethical 'management' - (there are the three exceptions, I have to admit). The majority of management at Advantis wouldn't be out of place in Harry Potter as soul-sucking dementors. You will be searching the area of Stoke for your soul. A typical day at Advantis would entail being the epitome of living your worst nightmare repeated continuously over and over again for eight and a half hours per day until you breathe a sigh of relief and finally hand in your resignation or go home for the day; an all too common occurrence at Advantis. You might as well be in solitary confinement at your desk being as you're monitored on 'comfort break'; I felt that comfortable going to the toilet whilst being timed by the majority of 'management', who sat smugly in their ivory tower offices. 10 minutes per day. Office smelt rather strange. Adjectives to describe management - (again there are a few exceptions), uneducated, unethical, two-faced and mislead. If you want to become a Team Leader or Manager sleeping with one of the management or doing unmentionable things at the 'Awards Night' are your best bets. Getting out of my king-sized bed in the morning was the hardest part of the job. Unfortunately, the one enjoyable part of the job was when management was off ill or decided to go down to the local Wetherspoons for a lunch-time session to celebrate a momentous occasion. Freedom Freedom Freedom you could hear in the office. If you want to see your GP more than prescribed (no pun intended), please feel free to take a job at Advantis. If you want to avoid getting thrown into a fictional prison such as Azkaban walk straight past this medieval establishment.

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