Horrible Culture, Horrible Ownership, Horrible Leadership - Sales Director OC Weekly Employee Review

1.0
11 Feb 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The OC Weekly brand was once cool, and has the potential to be cool again with the right owner. There used to be fun events (like the brunch event) but the owner has eliminated them all (the fun looking photos posted to the OC Weekly Glassdoor page are from events that no longer exist (so don't be fooled into thinking the culture is vibrant, fun, energetic and hip (it's not at all...it's the complete opposite: deathly, stale, sterile, and a complete energy suck), further most people in those photos have either quit or been terminated.

Cons

The owner ignores employees and eliminates managers who speak up about ways to improve office culture and ways the company can generate more revenue. But generating revenue doesn't seem to be a priority for the owner. His priority is to be involved as little as possible and to ignore as many employees as possible. It's confusing working for an owner that doesn't care about revenue or the overall health of the company. And he doesn't value his employees. In fact, he hardly cares about the safety of his employees, just ask any employee and they'll tell you the story about when the office was threatened by an outsider and how the owner ignored the matter and ignored his employees' concerns (for months) to address office safety. He has created an absolute disaster of a company. It's almost as though he is intentionally trying to drive the company out of business. Perpahs he just has too many other responsibilities to care about the OC Weekly.

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