Great Employees, terrible management - Anonymous employee Dodd Creative Group Employee Review

The owner was verbally abusive and often yelled at his employees and constantly lied to clients about timelines. There was a huge lack of effective communication between the owner and employees. Anxiety ran high among the staff most days. When the owner was out of the office the staff could work effectively and in peace. The inconsistency of rules was confusing as calling in sick was looked down upon, yet one time the owner himself got sick because people would come in sick out of fear and then the staff got yelled at for coming in sick. I witnessed 2 employees get yelled at their first week of work for not doing their job correctly. Everything was great aside from the owner himself who would get red faced and humiliate his staff in the office. There is also a culture of micromanagement, screen monitoring and endless counterproductive meetings. A few of his staff members get no time off at all - they are on call 24 hours a day. Raises were a biased projection of how the owner liked you at that particular moment.