Bonded by Low Morale - Anonymous employee Media General Employee Review

4.0
3 Apr 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Had some nice freedom at times, enjoyed many of the employees, the atmosphere could feel like family sometimes, the station manager was wonderful. Sometimes they had an ice cream truck show up on hot days in summer to show worker appreciation, as a wonderfully nice way of saying thank you. Gave me flexibility on my hours. Allowed people to move into other depts.

Cons

Departments were stingy about raises,(which left people feeling stuck and unappreciated) and then the station would buy lots of new stuff, even though they couldn't keep the things in place working properly or to just replace new things that they thought weren't good enough months later. Sometimes it felt like there would only be one person to fix a rather large problem. Also egos were seemingly an issue and sometimes stood in the way of progress. Not much vacation time, that's not unusual though.

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5.0
14 Nov 2016
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Pros

Overall great place to work.

Cons

Wish pay raises were better.

3.0
17 Apr 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great people. Used to be a safe place to work. Nothing changed (if you like that.) Slow pace despite huge expectations. Expectations are clearly defined: Make your numbers.

Cons

(1) Company leadership talks a good game, but does nothing about it. (2) Disconnect between COO / CEO level and the next level down who oversee field operations. Causes confusion and makes everyone risk adverse because all senior level management are trying to just not get fired... despite highest level management talking about "innovation". (3) Slow to react (4) There is a15% rule in which you pretty much can't get a pay increase over 15% during any promotion. (5) The _CEO_ has to sign off on any and every position brought into the company over $50,000 salary. (6) Despite being somewhat of an Internet company, everything is old school... culture, mindset, etc.. (7) everything about this place is contradictory and therefore frustrating. (8) Unrealistic expectations (9) Senior management have absolutely NO PLANS yet beat down local properties because they can't make 'the numbers'. (10) Tons of layoffs and cutbacks... you can't even order copier paper.

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