Schadenfreude-approved, horrible for everything else - Anonymous employee Rebel Circus Employee Review

1.0
Jun 17, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

More than enough office politics and ego to fill an entire season of GoT. Employee purge happens every 2 weeks or so. This is essentially a marketing agency. They only hire naïve millennials who don't know their worth. The work is creative but not worth chump change. Come for the deception and stay for the trainwreck. You get paid on time. Drama makes for great dinner/bar conversations. They feed you dirt cheap gluten food on Fridays. Some girl got fired for ordering grilled cheese once. Meh. You also learn important lessons on how NOT to run a business and treat people. I've worked in some terrible places but this is really something else.

Cons

Have fun getting your workload done on top of management yelling at you. Management has Napoleon syndrome and will not hesitate to terrorize employees. Don't you dare speak up or disobey! Very unconstitutional. Uncomfortable confrontations and creepiness abound. Bigotry and misogyny commonplace and very cringeworthy. Has implied a gay man is not a real man. Not cool. It's almost fun to watch a sketchy business operate with knives on all sides. Site traffic is suspicious. They allegedly steal products ideas, layouts, content, pitches from third party individuals, even from their own vendors. Employees, please give up trying to make this place authentic. It's not going to happen and you do not get paid enough.

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5.0
Nov 10, 2015
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Pros

Great environment and corporate culture. The people are fun and relatable. No one takes themselves too seriously. Seems like the only people posting reviews here are disgruntled employees who were terminated.

Cons

High pressure and ever-changing industry.

1.0
Aug 31, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The writers It is a job It's not unemployment You get to watch two men rapidly lose their minds

Cons

Clinically insane management Open floor plan so you can't escape the drama Unbridled insecurity complexes running the show Blog is run by three incompetent, abusive hacks who advise staff to steal all content and report on the most disturbing or low-hanging fruit that can be found (and stolen) on the web. The actual number of page views per blog are far lower than reported to advertisers - think in the 10s on a good day. If you can swallow your pride and close your ears and eyes to the constant abuse and misogyny around you, you'll do alright - for three months. They market to the lowest common denominator, because that's what they are. Cherry on the cake? They fill out your tax information FOR you - regardless of how many exemptions you actually claim, they will submit you (and sign your name on the the tax form, which is far from legal) with 0, leaving you with the maximum amount of taxes removed from each check. I once saw two of the "bosses" have a screaming match over what part of the egg contains more protein - one guy got up and left. I used to time how long it took before one of them stormed out each day; the record was 1 minute.

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