If I could give it zero stars... - Anonymous employee RDI Employee Review

1.0
Nov 15, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You get a paycheck. Despite the blatant inaccuracy. Also...a really nice copy machine and printer! Coffee machine gives free regular coffee.

Cons

Anything and everything you could imagine. Pay is a joke here. You start off with a pay rate that matches up with the job function and stress that would be appropriate 10 years ago. Agents are overloaded shortly afterwards. They are given the responsibility of taking calls for up to 20 or more companies without a raise. Raises supposedly come at your year mark. This will not happen. Management is too bogged down with their own "responsibilities and tasks" to bother even coaching agents, let alone give them yearly reviews. Supervisors will scream over top of you while you are on phone calls with customers telling you to get off your calls and move on to the next one. They will place calls on hold at their desk to avoid their clients seeing that we are "abandoning calls" so it will look like the customer hung up on hold. Clients are blatantly lied to when showed the call center. Senior management is unreceptive and unresponsive to change and improvement. They do not want to help better you, just strike fear until you are forced to either leave, get fired, or just...hopefully on a wing and a prayer...be a better agent. You will be written up for looking at supervisors the wrong way. Supervisors that have a sense of entitlement because they are all related somehow or close family friends with upper management. If you do advance, you will be given a fake title with no raise until they "see that what you're doing is useful"...... Their workforce management is run by one person with massive piles of other responsibilities. Your paychecks will be shorted because timecards are edited very carefully and spitefully by untrained and vindictive supervisors. The supervisors sleep with agents, agents date supervisors. Agents are not given background checks nor drug tests. Agents are often foul, loud, lazy, and even cruel to customers. If the supervisors LIKE the agent, nothing is done about it. If you are a good agent, you are seen as a threat. Supervisors will judge you and go after you until you quit or are fired. Benefits will cost you your paycheck. There are no values here. They are losing clients left and right. Favoritism and nepotism have no shame at RDI Marketing Services...save yourself an aneurism. Do not work here.

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5.0
Jan 14, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Very flexible, caring people. Honestly some of the best people I have ever met.

Cons

Progress isn't measured very clearly, you will think you are doing well, then suddenly you aren't.

2.0
May 14, 2026
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Pros

Holiday pot lucks (with meat provided by RDI) Will pay for exercise/gym as long as you're willing to meet the requirements (otherwise you pay). Ok benefits Some projects offer remote work after probationary period, including equipment Sales jobs may pay higher than customer service and tech support Everyone is super nice to you in orientation+training (it doesn't last)

Cons

No attention to dietary restrictions for pot luck, causing some people to not be able to enjoy. Definite focus on unhealthy eating with most snacks, meals and beverages in the canteen being crap, and a culture that seems focused on being unhealthy, and enabling obesity. False sense of culture presented during training - real culture becomes obvious after. Claims of "family" style, interest in feedback, inclusiveness and so on largely false. Climate controlled by site director, and they're generally interested in minimizing the cost so you may be too hot/cold. Deceptive culture, two sets of rules - one for the clique of managers, supervisors (glorified team leads) and 'special' employees, the other for everyone else. I.E. Favoritism. You can feel it from the moment you get out of training. Lack of interest in actual feedback, coupled with defensiveness or attacks Dishonesty and some bullying by leadership Very strict rules about bathroom use time (20 min/day). If you have a medical excuse, you can get an exemption so you aren't written up, but you won't be paid for that time in excess of 20 min/day. You're given your supervisor and manager's phone numbers to contact outside of work but good luck getting a response every time you need to contact them! Pathetic training by people with no experience in that area, who are led by onsite directors with no experience in education, either, leaving you potentially ill-prepared for your job. Sub-par salaries, which they blame on the clients. Holidays and holiday pay depend on both RDI rules and client rules, not just RDI, so you may not get vacation pay for some holidays. Very stingy company shoveling money upwards to the C-suite while maybe people in lower positions get crap pay, and some of the people you promote end up giving too much of their personal time to you without proper compensation. I could go on and on....

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