Toxic work environment with high turnover - Anonymous employee REEL CANADA Employee Review

1.0
26 Nov 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company's mission is a thoughtful one.

Cons

I worked here for over a year, and can safely say this is a very toxic work environment with high turnover because of poor management. One of the main managers here is a micro-managing perfectionist who treats female employees like incompetent children. The executive directors of this company are money-hungry opportunists who often express sexist, racist, and homophobic beliefs to their staff on a weekly basis. They use their employee's marginalized identities as tokens, an opportunity for them to apply for more grant money and hold them up as examples of their inclusivity while simultaneously treating them like garbage. Don’t be fooled by their nice ‘we’re family here’ facade, they will attempt to torpedo your career and future job prospects if you get on their bad side.

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4.0
30 Sept 2019
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Pros

Meet new and interesting people in the film industry and participate in meaningful events

Cons

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1.0
14 May 2026
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Pros

You'll learn a lot — mostly about what a dysfunctional workplace looks like.

Cons

Where to begin. This company has zero respect for your time or any semblance of work-life balance. Expect to have your boundaries pushed constantly with no acknowledgment or compensation for it. Even worse, don't count on your contract meaning anything — commitments made in writing are treated as suggestions when it's convenient for leadership. There's no HR department, and that's not an accident. It's a deliberate choice, because an actual HR function would expose the mountain of issues this company doesn't want documented or addressed. Employees have no real avenue for raising concerns, which means problems fester and nothing ever gets resolved. Meanwhile, the founders are doing just fine. The compensation disparity between leadership and the people doing the actual work is jarring — and demoralizing once you see it up close.

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