• Antagonistic, rude or cruel upper-management
• Employees are micro-managed or tracked at every turn
• Long hours due to bad planning or over-promising to clients
• Creative work limited to building out other agencies creative
• Bad or under-cooked meals that are subtracted from compensation
• Low or below average salaries compared to type of work and industry standards
• No bonuses and low chance of promotion for creative team
• Huge divide between the creative and accounting side, lots of in-fighting
• Client bashing that robs people of motivation
• Culture of gossip encourages drinking in-lieu of improving work conditions
• Location (building) in desperate need of cleaning (vacuuming, dusting, etc.) or repair
