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Great people, terrible management and culture - Anonymous employee Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Employee Review

2.0
Sep 28, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Employees/co-workers are, for the most part, dedicated and team-oriented to their own internal teams. Most middle managers and directors are working managers.

Cons

Teams/departments were very silo'd. Many, many good people have left, especially over the last year. In particular, the culture is challenged. Employees are overworked, under-paid, and under-appreciated by management. It's an incredibly top-down management style, with a lot of "mandates" coming from above and no consideration to how it will effect hourly or middle management workers. This includes drastic cuts to team sizes with no plan in place to handle the workload. An employee survey was done in summer 2013 with horrible results (everywhere except newsroom). Results weren't released to employees until spring 2014, with zero follow-up done in the year following. Great example of how to completely demoralize your employees.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Worked at the Journal Sentinel for over a year part time. Can be a fun place/environment to work in depending on the department. Decent experience for those just coming out of college with no other experience working in a professional work environment.

Cons

- Higher up management does little to help and does not listen to suggestions - Increase in responsibility is rewarded with pressure and nothing else - Instead of hiring for full time they continue to hire more part-time employees - There are those employees who do not do their jobs after years with the company and have not been fired - There is very little time for training a new employee - Many employees come and go within a year - Does not always feel like a professional work environment

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