It baffles me that the leadership team can even talk themselves into thinking they are maintaining a "great place to work." Great? Would a great company continue to strip down benefits to self-funded programs such as high-deductible HSAs (nothing else offered) and 401(k)s with no company match. Whould they take away guaranteed PTO to "unlimited" based on performance.? Would creatives and production staff be pitted against each other in a rating system to simply get more work out of them? Would they EVER compare their employees to "indentured slaves" during a company-wide meeting? Would a great company choose their profit margin during a pandemic over the welfare of their employees and IMMEDIATELY start furloughing people? They don't deserve the accolades and have lost all respect in their industry. Sad thing is, when they are told this they respond with a high-school chant that (regardless) NOBODY IS BETTER!
The facade of the company is that everyone is happy and have all the opportunity in the world. Fact is, it's hard to work there. Especially if you're not in the inner circle -- a small group of people who now wear golden shackles along with their plastered-on, Kool-aid-stained grins. They only wave the company flag because they are afraid of losing the coziness they have come to enjoy at the expense of the masses.
I started Madwire when they actually cared. When it was a dynamic, fun, and vibrantly growing place and I hoped to retire from there. But now, it's referred to as a "hellscape," an "orange-hued prison," and a "toxic hellhole." So I hope that Glassdoor and others look twice at ever honoring Madwire with another award for being a place where professionals want to work. It's just not true and they have a long way to go to work their way back there. They wouldn't know loyalty, integrity, or what it means to be "family" if it knocked on their very expensive front doors.
