RUN AWAY - Reporter The US Sun Employee Review

1.0
15 May 2024
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Pros

If you want to spend 9+ hours a day working while your bosses gossip about who is sleeping with whom, this is the place for you.

Cons

Where do I even begin? Firstly, if you're not British, expect to be treated with less consideration (they worship their British employees while the Americans are an afterthought). Management heavily pushes coming into the office to justify the lead editor getting a corner office. This rule is mainly enforced for employees they don't care about (i.e. some people are forced to come in from OUT OF STATE four times a week, while others, who live 25 minutes away, come in maybe once a week). The content is some of the dumbest I've ever written. I even considered using a pen name to avoid tarnishing my reputation. You're working 9+ hour days while line managers "work" in conference rooms or disappear altogether for hours at a time. The editors constantly have no idea what they're talking about and new "strategies" are implemented nearly daily to tackle poor PV numbers. This translates to reporters taking on more work to compensate for management's general incompetence. There is no U.S. HR department, no room for growth, and promotions and pay raises are often denied under the guise of "we have no budget". Somehow, execs are flown back and forth nearly monthly. The bottom line is that if something doesn't directly benefit the managers, they will deny you. Also, you get no American holidays off, so expect to be the only person you know working President's Day, MDW, LDW, Fourth of July, and even Christmas.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

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Cons

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