On average, 8/10 people have been hired within the last six months. It's wild how many new hires we go through. Also, the retention rate is dropping, with most reps just lasting a few months out of training. Isn't this incredibly wasteful? Yet management keeps the same training staff.

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Maybe the problem isn't just with the training staff. Could there be a larger organizational problem that is causing people to quit?

Retention is notoriously low within this field. Many people who get into customer support do so as a temporary job rather than a long-term career. So, the nature of it is more temporary than other careers. The pay is also not great, so I'm sure that deters people too.

Some people quickly realize no amount of pay or benefits is worth the way customers treat them.

This reminds me of this girl I was training with who couldn't handle the idea of multitasking and flipping between pages to monitor calls, accounts, and the chat system. The girl claimed she had COVID rather than show up for the third day of training. I'm still the newest person. Either they stopped looking, or literally, everyone has failed training.

There’s almost a 40% drop rate after training within the first three months on the floor for our company. I’ve lasted 6 months so far and this job has sucked my soul from me. I cope by decorating my office (I’m WFM) with things that spark joy. For example, I light my calm candle and got myself an aquarium to watch when I’m getting screamed at lol. It’s worked surprisingly well.

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