- Management that had no respect for their employees or suppliers.
- A toxic atmosphere to work in that made you doubt your own abilities, even when staff had usually done a great job on no time or money.
- Bad and under-qualified management that worked the staff into the ground. The work/life balance didn't exist - if you weren't working (which is rare as people were expected to work days, nights and weekends, sometimes for weeks without a day off), your body was too ruined to do anything but sleep and recover.
- Management wasted thousands of pounds on pointless parties for clients (that clients rarely came to more than once) and pro bono work for a large charity (giving that specific charity free films year after year, right up to the present day!), despite owing HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF POUNDS to suppliers.
- Poor facilities to work in (airflow/daylight etc - a massive lack of).
- You got a ‘promotion’ after working yourself into the ground (and begging for MONTHS for the promotion), but didn’t actually get the pay rise until you ‘proved yourself’ in your new role for a year to management - this is purely so they don't have to give you the pay rise that you've earned for as long as possible.
- Even if you proved yourself, you then had to pass a LUDICROUS ‘exam’ about the company, that the management had written themselves. If you failed that exam you had to wait MONTHS before you were allowed to take it again, thus delaying your well earned pay rise further.
- They didn’t pay freelancers unless they threaten legal action - EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
- It was a boys club at management level - women weren't respected by management.
- They used staff (particularly filmmakers/producers) as their own private bank overdraft, and expected staff to spend their own money to facilitate shoots, then didn’t pay back the staff for MONTHS for those expenses. As a result, you never actually received your full PITTANCE of a monthly salary.
- The ‘Finance department’ (who are completely under-qualified) are aggressive to suppliers and freelancers when they queried late payment.
- They expected filmmakers to drive a company van that was WAY past its sell by date - it often broke down, miles away from London, causing huge grief for staff to deal with themselves.
- Management is obsessed with James Bond (hence the terrible company name) - their dated attitudes to women reflected their Bond obsession.
- The toilets would often overflow due to poor maintenance.
- There was NO staff room for lunch and breaks.
