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Good fill in job for college student or part-time work - Communications Specialist/CS3 MDS Communications Employee Review

2.0
10 May 2015
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Pros

The starting pay for full time is 13-14$ per hour plus bonuses -- bonuses which could be anywhere from 0-250$ per week! This is the easiest place to get hired, fired, then re-hired again! They also pay weekly an allow you to work from home if you so choose. Management knows the job is tough and they do a lot to try to show appreciation to their callers with various activities like monthly recognition meetings, free fountain soda drinks in the break-room, spiffs and incentive contest, and special bonus structured that can net you a higher bonus then mentioned above. You also LITERALLY make your own schedule which you can change weekly if you choose. Above average computers and office space, speaking in terms of quality.

Cons

Your job is always on the line if you don't meet a specific quota of donations received per week which for the most part are always set a little to high; basically there are people who get fired every week. Literally. The topics you have to speak about range from general humanitarian work like feeding poor people, political issues that are always spun with a right-wing bias; this company is staunch republican. For example: you would call people to raise money to fight abortion and tell people that babies are being murdered, slaughtered and dismembered; and a lot of religious based topics as well - they also pray like 5 times a day as a group which is completely optional as they don't force you to participate. The environment is always stressful and you can feel the tense atmosphere at all times. The management always seems to hold a specific type of attitude that their better than you or that your a lower life form than they are, which I guess technically makes sense since they hire druggies, weirdos, and crazy people. They would have 100 seats available and have 120 employees scheduled to work lol

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5.0
24 Aug 2025
Recommend
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Pros

I've been working here for two weeks and as of Friday, I am officially on the call center floor in production. The first week of training is mainly learning about the different organizations we call on behalf of, the company's values and principles, roleplaying the scripts, and live calling after 3 days of classroom training. You have to pass a test to complete week 1 of training, but it's very simple and as long you pay attention, take notes, and show up you will do well. Week 2 of training is a lot of hands on experience on the phones, which helps out tremendously. It puts a lot of what you learned in week 1 into action and helps you with the foundation that week 1 built. I absolutely love my job so far. It is tough at times, you will get a lot of no's, but you have to keep trying. There are a lot of wonderful organizations we call for and they are worth all the hard work we put in. It's truly a blessing. I'm looking forward to starting production on Monday and improving even more!

Cons

The base pay could be a bit higher due to the amount calls we take and the hard work we put in, but we do get bonuses based on performance. If you don't perform well within a certain length of time, they will let you go. That's terrifying to think about, but I'm keeping a positive outlook and hoping to improve each week and keep my performance up!

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3.0
12 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home Overtime Good Benefits

Cons

Five days vacation for the whole year Insensitive to non-religious employees Ultra conservative

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