Lacking Grace - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Samuel French

3,0
30 giu 2015
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Meet important authors. Work closely within the industry. You’ll make great friends. An excellent foot in the door and resume builder.

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As an employee that really cared about the company and their work, I have to say that this company does not, really, care about the mental stress of their own employees. The attitude is take on a goliath amount of work, and if you express anything but enthusiasm, your credibility is at stake. To say that former employees simply “couldn’t handle the work” is reductive, insulting, and ultimately lacking responsibility for their own high turnover. While I do believe that management is trying to make positive progress, there is a pervasive stubbornness about admitting biases (gender, race, etc.), and feedback from the team, like, feeling under-staffed or under appreciated. Furthermore, management has a lack of sensitivity or class when communicating with their team. For example, turning down people for promotions (sometimes when they didn’t even apply), is often blunt with the back-handed attitude of “you’re perfect where you are,” or even that promoting you would hurt the company. The job seems more like an emotionally abusive boyfriend that beats you down then makes grand gestures to make it up to you.

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5,0
8 ago 2016
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Company provides hands on experience with helpful tasks that will give you new skills for your resume

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The internship was unpaid, and there was no available travel stipend.

1,0
9 apr 2014
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

You get to work in the industry. Many former employees have gone on to work for competitors, theatre companies, and literary agencies it can be a good spring board for a career somewhere else.

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In the entire office there are only one or two good managers left and if you are lucky enough to work with them you might have a good experience. Unfortunately it's not a big office and you will most likely have to work with all managers in some way and the majority of the managers including the president have no idea how the industry actually works nor how to manage people. A book that was recommended by the president for some employees to read included a statement along the lines of "People don't leave jobs they leave bad managers." Over the past few years several long time employees including managers (some of the good ones) have left to take basically the same type of position they held elsewhere. New employees have a very high turnover rate, they post a new position about every three months. What's sad is when I was hired it was so exciting to be working with one of the most recognized names in theater, we all had Samuel French scripts in our hands at some point. Only to find out in reality they don't care about the arts in the least but only the wallets of the owners one of which is the current president. The way business is conducted at Samuel French is immoral on many levels, not only toward their employees but their playwrights, customers, and other business in the industry.

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