Respect and fair treatment are for the chosen few and you're not one of them - Anonymous employee Rooster Teeth Productions Employee Review

Management routinely gaslit and talked down to my coworkers and me. Despite working on some of the most complicated and most successful shows at the company, we were the least-paid employees of our job type in the whole department and most likely the company as a whole. We simply wanted this to change. Managers told us we "should have read our contracts before signing them," as if to imply they might have given us a higher pay rate if we had asked for more (having tried it in the past, I'm confident saying they would not have). In one such negotiation for a promotion and higher pay (which was FAR too low given my city, industry, title, and years of experience, not to mention the insane inflation), I was repeatedly told that the company had a hiring/promotion freeze. Yet, seemingly every all-hands meeting, there were still hires and promotions, usually for friends of the top brass. And then the very manager who continuously told me this wound up getting a promotion. Funny how that works. One other flimsy justification for denying any meaningful pay increase was that I needed to check myself. "Check yourself" is one of the company's core values, which was being weaponized against me. Whereas it's supposed to mean a continual re-examination of oneself and being open to new ideas, it could also mean not agreeing with the higher-ups on something. It could also mean that they found errors in your work even though you're at the QC stage and finding/smoothing out errors is what you're supposed to do. It just depended on what management needed it to mean in the moment. The biggest pay raise they would offer was still several thousand dollars a year below my also underpaid coworkers. If there genuinely isn't enough in the budget for promotions and raises, that's one thing. But I have repeatedly been berated, belittled, singled out, lied to, micromanaged, and disrespected by higher-ups despite all the hard work I had put in and the passion I once had. Managers never noted, thanked, congratulated, or appreciated my efforts, but made extra sure to let me know in great detail all the miniscule things they thought I wasn't doing right. Things that were apparently problematic enough to deny me fair compensation, but which were never once mentioned until I asked for career advancement. The real tragedy? I'm just one of the many employees, past and present, who can say the same kind of thing.