Parasol Alliance reviews

Parasol presents itself as "one big family", but my experience did not reflect that image. During training, we were told, “If you need help, just ask in chat and someone will assist you.” Unfortunately, this was rarely the case. Once training ended, support was minimal, and it was often difficult to get assistance from supervisors or managers. For example, I once had an onsite outage that lasted several hours without any guidance from leadership. Network engineers were so overextended that even when help was available, they often needed significant time just to review documentation and understand a client’s setup. As a help desk technician, access is extremely limited, which means you’re dependent on others who may be overwhelmed with their own responsibilities. If they’re unavailable or not actively monitoring communication channels, resolving issues becomes nearly impossible. Over time, this lack of support feels discouraging, and unfortunately, it is the client who ultimately suffers. Parasol continues to expand and onboard new clients despite having insufficient documentation for many existing ones - can't stress this enough. I’ll never forget when during the onboarding of a large multi-building client, the COO said something along the lines of: “I know we don’t have documentation, but create it as you go and everything will be fine.” Considering that every site Parasol manages is configured differently, hearing that from someone at the executive level was alarming. Additionally, accountability within the team was lacking. Some technicians contributed very little without consequence, creating further strain on those who were actively working. Finally, when I attempted to roll over my 401k, Parasol transferred it to IPX, closed the account, and left me dealing with a frustrating and unresponsive third party.

The work is extremely complicated if you want to actually engage and do your job, which I tried to do. You can't change anything on a server without going thru a whole "change management" process which means you can't just try things and see what sticks. You have to be all methodical and "read the manual" about it. definitely not the job for a millennial who taught themselves computers. They expect you to know power shell. They set up the servers in this stupid way where they don't have storage in the server, instead they set up a NAS and actually boot their servers from a slow-ass NAS. a lot of clients have useless GPOs set up that just get the way of setting up bandaids. definitely not for the tech like me who likes to just bandaid issues and pray for the best.