Overworked & Oblivious Management - Publicist Simon & Schuster Employee Review

Overloaded with work. Stretched thin on campaigns and other tasks. Upper management refuses to learn their own internal systems - leaving it to the lower team members to pick up the slack. Lack of proper communication and upper management takes it personal if you call them out on it. There's a policy they don't tell you about where you can't be promoted a year after a promotion occurred. Performance is only based off arbitrary media hits - even though some people are given books that practically sell themselves and are given a large marketing push. The distribution of work amongst team members is also majorly imbalanced. It's clear that certain team members are given more work simply because they're competent and other members have their hand held while they complain about being bored and the rest of the team drowns. When you're promoted, you retain all your prior responsibilities, so you can forget ever leaving admin tasks behind. If you ask for something to be transferred to another person - it will go to someone else who's also drowning instead of people with time on their hands. After KKR - they stripped bonuses, removed the cell phone stipend, slashed budgets, laid off coworkers, essentially froze promotions, and decided your raises are solely merit based - but you'll have your meeting about your performance months after it's already been decided if you're getting a raise or not.