Great people, toxic workplace - News Reporter WHDH Employee Review

1.0
14 Sept 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Excels in breaking news coverage - Diverse workforce of talented professionals and all-around wonderful people (excluding management) - Good healthcare benefits (for unionized positions)

Cons

- Management is fundamentally incapable of seeing employees as human beings. Rather than working to make people happy and connected, they try to divide and sow paranoia and distrust. Even the most indispensable people are made to fear for their jobs at all times. - Nothing is communicated. Employees are expected to infer the intentions and desires of management and then berated when they don't guess correctly. Worse yet the intentions and desires of management are extremely fickle and change seemingly at random and without reason. Smart and talented people in all positions constantly act against their own best judgment out of concern for how management might view something. - There is no emphasis on development. Performance reviews don't exist. Positive feedback does not exist. The only time you will ever hear from management is when there is something negative to say, and even then it is usually nitpicky and not actionable. - Story selection is laughable. Field crews have no say in pitching stories, and when news isn't breaking the stories are pure trash. There is no desire to inform and a deep fear of anything that could be considered even remotely controversial or confusing. As a result stories are broken down to mind-numbing infotainment - Nearly impossible to get vacation time approved

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

There’s some amazing people who work there and get treated like absolute trash. You’ll met some of your very best friends, most of the people there are super supportive. The people there are great but the work environment isn’t.

Cons

Management doesn’t care about their employees. They will run you down to the ground because they’re short staffed and even when you say no to pick up an extra shift they’ll make you feel guilty, and the comp day you get for it - you won’t even be able to take it because it’ll get denied. They make promises that don’t ever come to fruition, and will gaslight you time and time and again - and the pay is so little there for the amount of work you’re expected to do and when you don’t perform to their expectations they’re surprised.

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