Pros
I loved my colleagues there. They are truly some of the best people I've worked with. The majority of them are industry vets who have 10+ years under their belt and working in sports is their passion. It was refreshing to see people actually like the jobs they do. The popular factor that comes with working for one of the oldest NHL teams. Occasional comp tickets to events, FT employees received healthcare benefits, 401k reimbursement. No bonuses and occasionally we got a 4% raise after our annual performance reviews.
Cons
1) Extremely toxic work culture. The new regime has created an eat or be eaten mentality among the ticket sales and partnership staff. I have seen sales reps publicly fired on the sales floor in front of everyone. The SVPs don't care about their employees they only care about results. 2) Lack of growth. Any approvals take forever to get through unless you're a revenue driving department. I was put up for a promotion and it took a year to hear anything. Management only gave me a month and a half of back pay after doing the work for a year. When I submitted a counter proposal, my manager told me I was ungrateful and that maybe if I had done more work or better work then she would have been willing to give my counter proposal to HR. I was already working 60+ hour weeks not that she knew. I did work and didn't track it because that's the culture. 3) Lack of integrity. One of the SVPs had me change data to reflect sales reps' numbers as lower than what they actually were so when he submitted them to HR for a 30 day review it looked like they hadn't met their sales goals. 4) Money. The sports industry in general doesn't pay people well, I will admit. But this particular company pays their SVPs hundreds of thousands of dollars while offering barely a living wage to the people who actually do the work and ensures everything runs smoothly. I loved my job there and I wish I could have stayed but the work culture is so toxic. The insane amount of pressure put on the employees to do more work than we could humanly do was anxiety inducing. The last year of working for this company put me and others in the lowest mental point we have been in a very long time. Employee turnover is close to 50% from when the new SVPs came in last year to now.