Not A Good Job For Anyone With A College Degree - X-team (Communication Specialist) Shipt Employee Review

1.0
18 Dec 2019
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Pros

The only pros of this company would be the free food.

Cons

Please read this before thinking about applying to this position!! Communication Specialist = X-Team (The hiring team makes it seems otherwise) this should be labeled CALL CENTER OPERATOR. They strictly go for young people who are fresh out of school or desperately need a job. This role is a CALL CENTER. You have two choices. You can work 8 hours, 5 days a week or you can work 10 hours 4 days a week. YOU DO NOT GET WEEKENDS OFF!! I can not stress this enough. You also do not work the same hours each week. You literally will never know when you are off until the week of. You need to show up at least 10 minutes before your shift to set up your computer or you will get a point for being late. There is a point system. If you receive 12 points, you will be fired. 1 point = Clocking in late 2 point = Leaving early / calling in 3 points = No show IF YOU ASK OFF IT WILL BE DENIED! You can ask off months in advanced and it will most likely be denied. I do not recommend this job if you have to visit family over the holidays, have weekend trips planned, etc, They will not work with you ever on scheduling. You will be able to do overtime to get rid of any points, but it is rare that happens. You get zero respect in this position even though you are the glue for the company. Any manager or hire up position will speak to you with a script if you have any question, concern or troubles. Basically, you will do great at this job if you can stay on the phone 10 hours a day and have a very random schedule. Also, there is no raise. $15.00! Also, training is 9 hours a day for a week and VERY VERY HARD since they have no structure.

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Thank you for taking the time to leave your review! We agree that all of the free food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner is a great perk. We know that our Experience Team is the heart of the company and we strive to offer cross training opportunities, flexibility in scheduling, and offering the opportunity for participation in Mentorshipt.

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Pros

Flexibility—Could set my own schedule. It could also be fun, and sometimes quite rewarding when customers were nice and appreciative. I credit Shipt for introducing me to gig work, as it led me to other, better-paying gig jobs while keeping the schedule flexibility that I need.

Cons

Pay—it’s pretty much poverty-level considering how much work goes into shopping for customers. While I didn’t Shipt full-time, I DID put in at least 30 hours a week doing this shopping. For all of that, the most I made in any given year was $13,000! And I worked hard, got great customer reviews and consistently good tips. Occasionally, there would be newspaper articles about the random Shipt shopper who made $100,000/year! What such articles glossed over (this fact would be buried somewhere deep in the text) was that the shopper in question consistently worked some 80-100 hours per week. So if you broke down that fabulous six-figure pay by how much time the shopper was spending doing the work, it really doesn’t come out to all that much. The other pay issue worth mentioning is that in 2020, right when Covid was rampant, Shipt announced that they were “restructuring” the way they paid shoppers. What this translated to was that they were now paying us even less than they had previously done! That’s when I began to be soured on Shipt. I continued to do it for a while longer, but eventually went to other gigs that paid more.

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