Review - Staff Writer Womack Employee Review

Its a good place to work that provides you the opportunity to be involved in many areas of the company and learn about things that you normally would not be exposed to in a very large company. This exposure allows you to grow and feel like its your company and made you feel like a owner. In addition to the above point, I would like to point out three things that I believe made my time at Womack Publishing successful. I came to work with a positive attitude, a desire to perform my job in a way that met or exceeded expectations, and last but not least I was dependable. I sincerely believe the three things were pivotal to being appreciated by other team members and for me feeling a real investment in the company.

You wear multiple hats at the same time so at times you may feel like you may have doubts about giving a particularly subject or project its due.

In individual newspaper offices, the atmosphere is friendly, productive and fun. The editors, writers and advertising managers and others do their best to provide a genuine community journalism product.

It's just comical how unqualified, lackadaisical and petty the upper-level management has become in the past few years. In a constant pursuit to inexplicably run the company into the ground, the upper-level management consistently mandates crippling budget cuts, fires/hires random employees on a whim, lack a shred of journalistic integrity/education, demand overwhelming amounts of productivity with no tolerance for overtime pay/bonuses/raises and treat their current employees like indentured servants - ruling with an iron fist. New ideas are met with cease-and-desist memorandums, advertising is viewed as the only purpose of the company, 'opportunities for growth with different newspapers' translates into 'when qualified employees leave we'll ask you to move/commute 100 miles away or threaten to end your position' and the consistent office aura is 'I hope I don't get fired today' instead of 'How can I make my paper better today'. Salaries/benefits are paltry. Tech is outdated. If you don't get the idea at this point, Womack might be good for you.