Dead-end job with insulting pay - Editor HubPages Employee Review

1.0
Feb 14, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers are good people and we support each other when abused by upper management

Cons

- Every minute of your working day is tracked through their system. If you do anything outside of editing (like answering an email or using Slack) you have to report how many minutes or hours you spend doing that task. - Editors are capped at $20/hr. -Despite all of us having college degrees, we are treated like unskilled laborers. Not much different from a minimum wage retail or restaurant industry job. -No career opportunities. You get stuck with the same pay and position. - Upper management tricks you into thinking you’ll have room to grow by asking you if you want to work on projects outside of editing, like marketing, or video making. You end up doing the work, but your pay doesn’t change and neither does your role. - High turnover rate. People are constantly quitting. - Morale is rock bottom and people are disgruntled and fatigued. Editors are refusing to produce great work out of protest. They just do enough to make their hours each week. - Responsibilities grow without commensurate pay.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Mar 5, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Really great coworkers - Flexible hours - Good if you don't want any major responsibility

Cons

- Management doesn't want to hear about your ideas—if you question anything or suggest how to make things better, you will be shot down. They will get defensive about anything that isn't working well. - HubPages is trying to be like Medium or any other fancy publisher, but they aren't. It is ruining the authenticity and original charm of the platform. It's supposed to be for "everyday experts." - Raises are few and far between. And if you ever want to make over $20 as an editor, look elsewhere. Don't let them bully you into thinking you should want to do more tasks without being compensated for them. You are worth more than that. - Everything you do is tracked. For tasks that aren't tracked on the internal system, you must keep a list of them and how long they took. That being said, it seems like it has been very easy for people to get away with doing nothing. - Management treats the team like children. No hard conversations. No minimum expectations. Everyone gets the same raise and the same bonus to prevent "unfairness." - Very high turnover. Especially during the pandemic. No attempts to make the situation any better or more comfortable. - Doesn't want to invest in the company's future—only if there will be immediate results.

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