Jeremy Samms
Florida,#2UPDATE Employee
Wed, December 16, 2009
At TAG we handle the Technical Support for Best Buy's geeksquad. BestBuy doesn't ever fix anything on their own. Any repair for Best Buy will take 2 to 3 weeks easily (no matter what the store tells you, all they do is ship it to he manufacturer, most of the time coming back with used and refurbished parts. TAG is just a Call Center trying to screw BestBuy customers out of their hard earned money on Service Plans, but TAG does not let us give decent customer support. People pay hundreds of dollars to have technical support at Geeksquad. Bestbuy does not know this goes on. All TAG emphasizes over and over by multiple supervisors and in training is to just be nice, it doesn't matter if you fix the problem or not. And don't let any call go over 13 minutes or you get reprimanded by a supervisor. Most companies Tech support is not great, but since BestBuy's costs hundreds of dollars; I assume the customer would rather have the problem fixed than to just start a rapport with the customer and just be nice. We are told not to even work on most problems and if it takes longer than 13 minutes then we are told to just pass the customer to another dept to charge people more money to have Geeksquad come out to their house. Once again, Bestbuy must not know this is going on, or they would've stopped it by now, but they just must not know, in which someone should let Bestbuy Corporate know this is happening. Iv'e never heard before "It doesn;t matter that you don't fix the problem, as long as you are nice to the customer". Well if that was me calling, I want my problem resolved. A nice and courteous person is great, but people call to resolve issues. And once again, TAG just cares about numbers like how many calls you answer (which is how TAG gets paid by BestBuy. So not only is The Answer Group (Tag) slave drivers, they are theives stealing from Best Buys customer's by not fixing issues that would go over 13 minutes on the phone. I'm so glad I know what I know now to never get a service plan from Best Buy again (for PC's). The Technical Support is told not to assist over 13 minutes, which does not seem fair to me for a customer who paid hundreds of dollars to be covered. And the other problem is that any small repair, the store will keep your Desktop or Laptop for weeks and weeks since it is only sent to the manufacturer and not an actual geeksquad rapair center. Any question? Corrupt call center, that's all it is. And Best Buy should know.
Mike B.
Big Stone Gap,#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Sun, June 28, 2009
I am not sure now that a new company has taken them over, but, When the Quinns owned it I thought it was one of the greatest places to work. As one of the other rebutals went, they gave me a job when the chips were down. I made many friends and miss them since I moved away in 2000. I worked there for a number of years up until may of 2000. Most would know me on the Compaq side where I had long hair and talked to most everyone. Anyway, as i remember it, we always had two employee parties every year that cost the company mega bucks. We had gifts/prizes that varied but mainly things like jet skis, big screen tv's and so on. We always had a blast be it on the golf course or in a banquet hall. I also remember a time when Andy and Bruce walked around while a bad storm/hurricane came in and we still worked, he handed everyone there several hundred dollars each for being there and thanked them personally. Yeah, you have to stay logged in but when you work, shouldn't you be working? guess maybe it is my mentality that when you are at work, you work, nuff said! Now that my rant about how they were great, I hope maybe everyone knows they were great and I would love to work for the Quinns because they know how to handle a company and how to treat their employees. the new company I can't say much for cause I have never worked for them so...
Jim
Detroit,#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, July 09, 2008
I was employed by TAG in 2000. I had just been phased out of a job as a Systems Administrator. The pay was far less than my previous position but so were the responsibilities. I left TAG to return to Dallas, TX as an Administrator. I sorely wish I had stayed at TAG and worked up to a better position. I can't afford to return to Southern Florida and start at the bottom of I would be with them now.
Bill
Sunrise,#5UPDATE EX-employee responds
Tue, June 12, 2007
I was a former trainer at TAG. Although what you say is true, you are showing just one side. TAG is a business, it is about profit. As an employer, if I'm paying people to be on the phone, why would I want to continue to pay them a premium to smoke, hang out, be off the phone, walk around the building etc. The idea of getting paid a premium while on the phone makes perfect business sense. About ending the call. TAG and other companies are under instructions by their clients, i.e. Bellsouth, Comcast, etc on how calls are handled. I know this personally as I was trained by the clients to train the agents. TAG adds their own side which comes from years of experience and trial and error. Also, TAG and other call centers are paid by the client in a number of ways, time spent on phone, up to a certain point, number of calls handled etc. It's about numbers. We trained new agents and trained to be very good at the job they decided to take. No one forces people to work at a certain company. The job is demanding and has a very big turnover and it's the nature of the industry. TAG as a company treated me very well. I was a victim of the dot com bomb and TAG took me in, gave me a job, and provided a way to inexpensive insurance. They were a life saver in many ways. Just like any company, there good and bad, depending on youir point of view, however I was always treated well and with respect by managers, techs, and prinicpals of the company. The owners of the company started it from nothing a created what is there today, and started off answering support calls like everyone else. I will always think of my time with TAG with good memories of a job and people I enjoyed.