Terrible management
Manager would rather have his employees work 12 - 15 hour days before even considering adjusting the work load
Multiple artists are working until past midnight because the manager took on too many jobs and is too afraid to say his team can't handle it
Upper management is disconnected from reality
If you're younger than 35, they will try and take advantage of you and think you're naive and do anything they tell you without questioning it. If you don't, they threaten you with termination and not being a team player.
Upper management will try to guilt trip you with how they work until 3AM as if they aren't getting paid 20x your salary.
They don't care about COVID. They forced us to go into the office and were working in the office during the pandemic. Multiple people got COVID working in the office and they did nothing. Management avoided taking a test because then they would have to report it.
If you don't fall in line with what their ideal worker bee idea is, they get passive aggressive on you and make for a toxic work environment in order to try and bully you to quit.
There's no communication between anyone other than your direct co workers. Upper management hides in an office locked away from everyone or is out and middle management will give you 100 animations to do in less than 3 days and call you a bad team player for point out how unrealistic that expectation is.
You can be working on a project for weeks and it won't be until the third week that management will tell you to drop it because they didn't do their due diligence in assuring that all licensors and companies are on board. Which then puts you behind because they suddenly have 2 other projects they need done in 2 weeks. Again, your management will take these jobs with zero knowledge of the workload and just tell you to work 75 hour weeks and weekends. No consideration for you having a healthy work life balance.
Refuses to contact you through written form because then it would be documented. They will call you before you clock in and after you clock out. They don't want an employee, they want a 24/7 on call slave.
Pay is trash. $53k / year anywhere in California is pennies, let alone in the city. Good luck finding a place to live when you get paid $3k a month. I get paid more doing Doordash. They'll also tell you to move within reasonable distance of the office and give you a weekend to find an apartment and move all while having you work their 8 (more like 12 - 15) hour days.
