Blogilates Reviews

* Poor management style. * Poor time management. Shoots always run late and management doesn't understand how long projects realistically take. * Poor production & development process for products. * False promotions given to make you believe you're growing but you're actually getting more work. * Understaffed. Will take forever hiring for positions actually needed. * Will not hire for other positions needed. Work gets thrown into laps of team members even if it has nothing to do with what they were hired for. * Tense work environment. Everyone is overwhelmed and complains. * 5 vacation days your first year. * Paid late often and brushed off as a "DELAY". * High turnaround. Don't get too comfortable with your coworkers. * Inappropriate remarks from management during meetings such as asking about personal health problems due to doctor appointments, remarks on personality, tries to get you to gossip about other coworkers, etc. * CEO does not delegate properly. * CEO needs to learn to separate personal from work life. * Management shows extreme favoritism towards certain personality types. *CEO hosts secret "walk and talk" meetings.

- Underpays staff. Payment comes at predictable dates, usually late. When expenses are filed, they take a very long time to be paid back. - Takes advantage of younger employees' naivety. There are many times when CEO and upper management would demonstrate poor business practices, but would be offended when their actions were pointed out as poor. - CEO and upper management do not accept criticism of any kind, even when constructive. They make employees feel that they can never question them. When they do, CEO and upper management make that employee feel punished. - For most of the time I was there, I thought we had no HR. Turns out, HR is a relative of the upper management. This makes things feel very biased and makes HR unapproachable. - CEO and upper management bring emotions into the work place in an inappropriate way. As a result, they often manipulate employees' emotions which leads to a constant state of stress. Many people feel like they can be fired at any moment. - CEO refuses to delegate. This comes off as being very controlling and makes employees feel like they aren't trusted. - Fishbowl environment. There is clear pressure on employees to look like they are actively working at all times. As a creative, I found this very stifling. - Even though it is a salary position, CEO and upper management obsessed over employees working 8 hours to the minute. This added stress over getting to work on time, and staying late if that happened - regardless of if there was actually work to be done. - Very unhealthy culture. I often felt shame over my lunch if I was not eating similarly to the CEO. I also felt shame if I did not exercise as frequently. I feel that the CEO does not practice what she preaches on her YouTube channel. - CEO and upper management have no sense of work/life balance and expect all employees to do the same. - CEO needed to be praised constantly and only people who enthusiastically did this felt accepted. - Employees are baited with promises of career development, but not a single employee has ever been promoted. When an employee expresses interest in a promotion, CEO and upper management are offended and present a "trial" where the employee must complete unreasonable tasks that are well outside their job description by a certain date. - Severe lack of communication. Often times, it feels like CEO and upper management are keeping necessarily information to themselves and it effects workflow.