No Reason to Work Here - Anonymous employee Vitro Agency Employee Review

Rather than start a rant, I'll simply list off actual facts and events witnessed while working here: - Although they claim that producing great work is the end-all be-all, most creatives only produced microsites, brochures or banners. - Although late night and weekend work is constantly expected, not once was food or drink provided nor can you ever expense cabs - Vitro literally would work an employee until he had heart problems and had to go to the hospital (multiple times!) and even after he got back from the hospital, his workload remained the same. - When an employee asked for his contractual bonys after being let go, they paid him thousands of dollars in pennies! - When a client asked for a female creative, Vitro hired one, moved her across the country and after the client was appeased 6 months later, they fired the poor woman. - They would lay people off and give them ZERO severance because by California state law, they "didn't have to." - Every 6 weeks you go offsite for a meeting where they tell you what you're doing wrong as a creative department. - They don't even have a coke machine. - There is a constant, lingering nervousness in the air due to the fact that John Vitro will fire someone strictly due to his whimsy that day. - To keep account people from leaving, they are constantly promoting, creating employees that don't have enough experience for their new position. - They fired someone during a pitch, then proceeded to win the pitch with that person's idea - There isn't one room where creatives can go to work in silence - Creative Directors don't make ideas better, they simply kill them. The process repeats itself until the night before the assignment is due.