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Toxic and abusive environment (Townnews.com only) - Programmer Lee Enterprises Employee Review

1.0
May 1, 2014
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Pros

I met a few cool people and I did manage to learn quite a few new skill.

Cons

I don't think my boss ever said one thing to me that wasn't condescending. It was incredibly frustrating to work as hard as you can every day and be confronted with nothing but insults and harassment. There was a clique of management and a few select employees that were their friends that would harass, berate and behave totally unprofessionally. Management knows of the environment but it's being done by friends and family of a VP and they are totally protected. I should have left earlier. I stayed too long and wound up just walking out. Also, compensation is very low. Townnews.com is tied to the newspaper industry and isn't able to provide competitive pay in the technology sector.

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