- Someone in a leadership position was very age-discriminating, I was pulled into a meeting and told that since I was younger, I just need to listen and do what he said, even when my work was already approved by a paying client of the company. - There is not a clear hierarchy of of leadership, everyday is a new day of whom the studio have to listen to. Each department does not talk to one another which leads to department heads badmouthing each other. Even worse, management couldn't seem to agree on a method of communication, leading to the studio having to ask for approvals via emails, texts, and other messaging apps. - They expected a really high level of work, yet wouldn't provide you with the time, direction, nor equipment to achieve it. New projects were created and sent straight to the studio without going through art direction, leading to time being wasted on shooting and re-shooting due to misaligned taste and vision. - Often times I was handed a last minute project to complete with a one-day turnaround, only to find out much later that the deadline did not matter at all. Or a project was assigned with a tight deadline, but no samples were delivered to the studio until very last minute. - When I was hired to be a photographer, it took the company 2 weeks to get me an Adobe license. Many photo equipment and props are old, but there's no budget for new gears. Yet somehow there is thousands of dollars worth of video equipment sitting unused.
