27 Quit or Fired in the Last 19 Months.. In One Office - Anonymous employee Community Impact Newspaper Employee Review

Regarding my review title, this is an absolute fact—I have seen an employee yearbook with names crossed out to prove it (there may even be more). The following are my personal experiences and observations during my more than 3-year tenure as a respected team-player with Community Impact. In an email, they offered a gift card to anyone passionate about the company who posted a review on Glassdoor or Indeed if they sent a screenshot of it to HR. This was in mid January of 2015 which is why you see so many positive reviews at that time. Interestingly enough, the terms of use for Glassdoor indicates that: "You may not offer incentives in exchange for company or interview reviews. We will remove reviews where we have evidence that users were compensated to leave reviews." I'm quite certain someone can provide screenshot evidence of the aforementioned email. A witch hunt was started when they found out someone posted a non-favorable but still mostly truthful review on Glassdoor—several previous employees were questioned and can attest to this fact. After learning of this non-favorable review, a publisher childishly asked anyone to "leave" if they didn’t feel like they were in the right place—at a staff meeting—with at least one new employee present. Religion is definitely brought up more than some people might like. Management was known to ask others about their concerns with you, rather than speak with you directly about them. Management has written people up and put them on probation for things that were not fully under their control. The constant emails were annoying. From my experience, they seemed to care more about their processes and less about the quality of work. Meeting deadlines with mistakes was routinely given more true praise than late work that still made it to press on time with no mistakes and more creativity. Everyone was stretched thin with their workload—so everyone had even more work to complete when there was turnover. Upper management was overly upbeat during times of turnover. There was not enough training. Yearly reviews had opinions from those that you had little interaction with, so the reviews didn't truly reflect your performance—which was a shame since part of the determining factor in the amount of profit-sharing you received was based on that review. I can certainly see why a few people on here have posted reviews stating that if you don’t fit in then you will not get very far. I encourage you to request a copy of the employee handbook before accepting an offer. Look into the following sections: Employment at Will, Overtime, Personal Belongings and Passwords, Searches and Inspections, and any other sections of interest to you.