This place is like a Nazzi concentration camp, seriously... u get mentally demoralized at every turn possible before u get put in front of a firing squad.
If u do great and clients send u complementary emails u never hear anything about it, if u make any little mistake u get called into the bosseas office and ur job is under review and they will let u know if u will continue to work 3 months from then.
Regular employees are kept at part time level for years, and they're pay is kept at minimum so they wont have to pay u any benefits. When downsizing started the longer working union employees got option to move to Woodstock, Barrie hubs to keep their jobs or get a buy out, none unionized workers or those with a opinion get replaced by students ( that start at 13/hr ). Regular interval layoffs usually come in spring and just before Christmas to keep morale nice and low, and u get abused on phone by dim-witted sales reps and rude clients everyday.
One year they announced 35% profits and people got 15 cents per hr raise, an insult really, than 6 months later they lay off 20 people
Later more than 50% of work was outsourced to India under the discuise of a Quebec company called the Affinity with whom they signed a contract, and clients started leaving (at record pace) mad at plumeting quality of work, followed by another round of layoffs.
One year they touted quality over quantity yet started a monthly competition who would do more ads would get a $25 gift certificate to some usless place or "cold hard cash" and a quarterly $150 if u had highest ad count.
Wow a whole buck a day extra if u break ur back! Awesome! What a joke.
The whole place is run by incompetent people detached from reality and from actually makes them money. Marketers that know nothing how to attract new clients, managers that don't know the basics of what makes a business successful, fat cat bosses that don't care about their workers, the one thing that actually made the company successful at one point.
One of my friends from the Woodstock branch got a printed copy of top management payrole after some twit sent it to print over the network to the wrong printer. In it the CEOs ( Pierre) salary was shown at nearly $1.2 million a year and large bonuses for managing directors. While peoples vacation pay was taken away and hours were cut down. This guy lost millions for the company hundreds of jobs and good people lost, and instead of getting fired got a raise and production and sales people got axed.
Do urself a favor, get ur feet wet by all means but get out as soon as u can.
