1, Report:
#145248
Posted Date:
Aug 29 2010
West Corporation, West Telemarketing, West Business Services Harsh Employee Treatment, Discrimination, Customer Abuse Ripoff Universal City Texas
I am a former employee of West Business Services also known as West Telemarketing and West Business Services amongst other names. They are a staple in the community of San Antonio. I think that nearly everyone in the community has worked there or knows someone who has. They have two...
Entity
Categories: Employers
2, Report:
#617827
Posted Date:
Jun 27 2010
West Telemarketing In Pensacola, Fl West Corporation Wrongful termination Pensacola, Florida
I worked for west for a number of months, roughly from august of 07 to feb of 08. they started us out at 9$ an hour with the promis of 11.50$ and benifits after we've worked there for 3 months. there were roughly 9 systems we had to use in order to conduct the required buisine...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
3, Report:
#477650
Posted Date:
Aug 08 2009
West Telemarketing,West Telemarketing What I Witnessed They attempted to pull the wool over my eyes as if i was a blind sheep Tulsa Oklahoma
West telemarketing a fortune 1000 company bought and sold every two-three years a company that goes through employees faster then some third world countries go through emergency aid. A place where employees are drug screened and background checks are ran on qualifying candidates fo...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketers
4, Report:
#273356
Posted Date:
Jul 21 2009
West Corporation West: The Unorganized Factory Universal City (San Antonio) Texas
I'm going to keep this to the point and real as possible. West will overhire to compensate for their high turnover rate. At times employees would have to park in other business parking spaces and risk being towed due to the unavailibilty of parking spaces. If you arrive 10 minutes b...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
5, Report:
#44403
Posted Date:
Jun 11 2009
West Telemarketing unfair labor practices Rip-off Mobile Alabama
I stated with West Telemarketing Service the first of the year. I was instructed to arrive on a Monday at 7:15 am for orientation. When I arrived, the office was not prepared for the new hires.
When I did get into orientation, and started on the days training. Agian they were ...
Entity
Categories: Employers
6, Report:
#220428
Posted Date:
Jun 09 2009
West Telemarketing deceptive testing and termination practices ripoff Omaha Nebraska
To preface this report let me say I am a 50 year old family man, an owner of a small business and a lifelong resident of Omaha, Ne. Also fyi I have worked at west at least three times since 1992 as inbound TSR agents at their Omaha inbound facility.
On occasion I was awarded TSR...
Entity
Categories: Employers
7, Report:
#451205
Posted Date:
May 12 2009
West Telecommunications - floor Supervisors And Managers And Employees Total inappropiate behavior, sexually motivated misconduct and lack of professionalism Huntsville Alabama
I worked for West Telemarketing and I hope to never go back. I refused to file an appeal because I would not work there again even if the recession claimed all other decent jobs! There was extremely rushed and forgetable training by a group of perverts, inexperienced instructors or...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
8, Report:
#437520
Posted Date:
Mar 25 2009
West Telemarketing As Well As Others Is this really Fraud ; Personally I think so Omaha Nebraska
I am a 35 year old young lady, right now I work as an Independant contractor for a great company in the accounting software feild. When I call prospective customers or current customers , I tell them I work for the company I actually do work for.
Now let me ask you , I have worke...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
9, Report:
#257110
Posted Date:
Oct 07 2008
West Communications/ West Telemarketing Corporation WAHA/ Independent Contractor vs Employee Omaha Nebraska
I worked as a WAHA for West from late Fall 2004-Spring 2005. I really enjoyed taking inbound orders for product, etc & I loved talking to people; however I had two major problems with the way they wanted things done:
1) Upsell to the point of losing customers at worst, or totally...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
10, Report:
#375572
Posted Date:
Sep 24 2008
West Telemarketing West.com West Teleservices Workathomeagent West Teleserviceswest Communications, rip off on final pay check by putting just temp block on acct! Omaha Nebraska
When I first started with West as workathomeagent, they were IC status and that changed to employee status in 9/2007.
I was told my employment had been terminated, effective 9/19. I work two lines for West. The lines I worked, the first one blocked on 9/19, but I was told by 4...
Entity
Categories: Employers
11, Report:
#348607
Posted Date:
Jul 08 2008
West Telemarketing LP IRS determined West Telemarketing LP contractors were actually employees for Federal tax purposes. San Antonio Texas
I received notification from the IRS on June 30, 2008 that I was an employee, not a contractor, for West.
In fact, an opening paragraph in the letter I received from the IRS states:
The employment tax status of call agents for West Telemarketing LP was previously addressed by this...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
12, Report:
#326799
Posted Date:
Apr 19 2008
West Telemarketing West unprofessional payroll practices is nothing but fraud. Bryan Texas
I have been with West over two years and the first thing I noticed that emplyees there were having a hard time getting all of there pay. Especially if they worked allot of overtime. I worked in the podium and on payday there were dozens of people having the same problems with their ...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
13, Report:
#257229
Posted Date:
Mar 24 2008
West Telemarketing Independent Contractor vs employee conversion Ripoff San Antonio Texas
Notified on June 25, 2007, of employee conversion versus Independent Contractor. Very little explanation of action provided by West Telemarketing. No option to continue as a IC but mandatory to become an employee of West. No benefits provided by the company for days off or insura...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
14, Report:
#261431
Posted Date:
Feb 22 2008
West Corporation Aka West Telemarketing West Corporation did not pay me what I deserved Omaha Nebraska
I started working for West in May of 2007 at the rate of .17 a minute talk time. I am a stay at home mother. I had a really good job which I lost a year ago, and have been looking for a way to make ends meet. I stumbled across West on the Internet, and from what they advertise yo...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketers
15, Report:
#1033055
Posted Date:
Feb 19 2008
West Teleservices Corporation, West Telemarketing Ripoff When I tried to unionize West Omaha Nebraska
I worked for West in Omaha about twenty years ago. Our biggest complaint was that points were assessed if you did something wrong in a call. For example you had to spell the customer's name and address back to them. For most of the year, if didn't spell back a common name like 'Smit...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
16, Report:
#25017
Posted Date:
Feb 19 2008
Donald Lawson (Mgr) - West Teleservices Corporation, West Telemarketing, Western Corporation Manager Donald Lawson Cheats Employees & West Teleservices Condones Gimmick Products; Company As A Whole Screws Employees But Screws the Customers Even More Hampton Virginia
Last April of 2001, I had to end employment from my current job in
the wake of the computer industry crash so I re-applied at West
Teleservices in Hampton, VA. I was rehired by West as a Teleservices Representative
(TSR) to work on the Direct Line call floor. Knowing the condi...
Entity
Categories: Employers
17, Report:
#158671
Posted Date:
Feb 18 2008
WEST BUSINESS SERVICES - WEST TELEMARKETING OUTBOUND - WEST TELESERVICES Modern Day Sodom and Gamora, Condones & Justifies Personally Motivated Termination Of Employees, RIPOFF San Antonio Texas
West business Services in San Antonio is a haven for crooked business practices, manipulation, intimidation, and retaliation and sexual exploitation of new employees who are down on their luck, and simply lookig for a place to re-establish themselves in the working class of America....
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
18, Report:
#278911
Posted Date:
Oct 16 2007
West Telemarketing In Universal City do not give us as employees our money for hours picked up and make excuses for everything San Antonio Texas
i am right now an employee at west as we speak....im so sick and tired how they treat us. we are all just a number to them with no face. its always promised to us our pay(however) we never receive our pay. its hard enough that a lot of us cant afford anything as of our bills becaus...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketers
19, Report:
#276280
Posted Date:
Sep 28 2007
West Corp. West At Home Contractors converting to employees, offered jobs then blew off the new hires due to errors in THEIR systems! None Given Internet
Recently those who have been work at home, independent contractors for West Corp. where told that West would no longer be contracting, but instead hiring those contractors that were interested, as acctual employees.
West made this out to be an exciting opportuniy for the contrac...
Entity
Categories: Builders & Contractors
20, Report:
#3203
Posted Date:
Jul 28 2007
West Telemarketing Buyers Reward, Encore Health and Beauty Club rip-off
I work at West and the products like Buyers reward are included in orders like Ab slide and other infromercial products. We are required to read them to the customers or we will get fired. We also are not supposed to ask if the customer is interested in trying it out for 30 days fre...
Entity
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
21, Report:
#244005
Posted Date:
Jul 27 2007
West Telemarketing In Pensacola, Fl West Telemarketing LP Ripoff Pensacola Florida
Well here is another story for the notorious WEST. I just got fired last night. I work for the west call center in Pensacola and handled incoming trouble shooting and billing for Comcast cable a client of Wests'. I had great stat's, great quality assurance reviews at 100% on everyon...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
22, Report:
#200493
Posted Date:
Jul 11 2006
WEST TELEMARKETING DECEPTIVE, LIARS, SCAMMERS,VERY UNPROFESSIONAL SAN ANTONIO Texas
I went back to work for WEST, i had to go thru a ringer to get re-hired! they said training for NELNET was for 2 weeks, they crammed it down our throats in 3 days!!!!!!! and expected us to be professional about it, and retain all of the information. After i saw other csr's on the ...
Entity
Categories: Employers
23, Report:
#131595
Posted Date:
Apr 03 2006
West Telemarketing - Unfair Application Process! Ripoff! Omaha Nebraska
When I applied for a telemarketing position at West, I accidently made a mistake filling out the criminal history portion and indicated that I was convicted of a misdemeanor that I actually only had been charged with. It had been dismissed. I caught my mistake (which had been on a c...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
24, Report:
#170660
Posted Date:
Jan 06 2006
West Telemarketing ripoff sold their souls to a whole new type of devil and that devils name is Homeworks Plus Also known as MWI San Antonio Texas
Mama don't let your babies grow up to work at west telemarketing.... Where does one begin when describing one of the most corrupt and silly companies around san antonio, TX? Easy! Just spell W.E.S.T. I have worked at this company off and on over the years. They have been good...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketers
25, Report:
#169222
Posted Date:
Dec 25 2005
West Telemarketing ripoff, unrightful termination El Paso Texas
Working for West Telemaraketing for 3 years and 11 months I saw all of the corruption and favoritism that goes on within the working enviroment. I started with outbound sales for AT&T and ended up doing inbound customer service for Cingular. The last project that I was on was altoge...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies