Everything else. This is by far the most unprofessional, toxic work environment I have ever worked in. Higher-ups (I am talking founders of the company) openly make derogatory comments about younger female employees, calling them stupid, etc. They have interns eat in the back, so as not to "offend" staff employees and clients. The office itself is disgusting! They serve client's food on dirty old plastic trays that are often wiped down by frantic interns who haven't washed their hands after handling garbage, etc. I never ate ANYTHING from that place, because the people handling food are NOT trained in food service, etc. Once a week interns serve waffles to the whole building, made on griddles that were NEVER cleaned during my time there. Interns often joked about them never being cleaned! Projects there range from generic car commercials to bad radio ads- yet the air in the office is that they are creating innovated and groundbreaking commercial content. The chain of command runs on a manic, drunken stupor. I was once on an email chain with the GM of the company that emailed 5+ people at 4 am berating them for their pathetic insufficiencies (Followed by an email apologizing for his behavior). Front desk "client services" openly yell and demean interns and staff in front of other coworkers and clients. After working in high caliber, professional post-production environments, I was shocked and appalled at the behavior I witnessed during my time at Cutters. For a company that cares so much about its reputation, the day to day workflow is handled in a laughably dysfunctional manner. Clients beware, take your business elsewhere! Prospective applicants beware, this place is beyond TOXIC- there are much more professional post-production houses in the Chicago land area.
