Right Angles Reviews

2.8

47% would recommend to a friend

(10 total reviews)

47% positive business outlook

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1.0
22 May 2020
Recommend
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Pros

You will meet some fascinating people and interesting journalists.

Cons

I was 22 when I started working for Paul Blanchard in September 2019. I started as a researcher, then became a senior researcher and then a consultant. When I became a consultant, he said he was going to 'pay me from the US company account' for tax reasons and I would be self employed, so I would have to send invoices. I stupidly told him that I wanted to save all my wages towards a deposit and wouldn't be checking my account. As I was receiving wire receipts to 'Madelaine Hanson' with my sortcode and account number listed, I didn't even think to question it. When I left in November 2019, I checked my account and my bank told me they'd never received any funds, amounting to £29,324.67. Puzzled, I contacted Paul Blanchard and he said he was surprised and had no idea what was going on, promising to look into it. Despite being penniless and homeless, and having to borrow money from my parents, he continued to drag it out, making crazy accusations that I was the reason his clients had left after I did, going as far as to accuse me of telling them about his illicit business practices concerning a major political event, resulting in a massive ongoing lawsuit against him. Even after the clients themselves informed him that this hadn't happened, he still ignored my requests for my wages. I then found out, from his own invoice to a client, that the IBAN that had received ALL my wages was his account at Metrobank. He had never informed me of this, and to this day hasn't given me a penny. He owes hundreds of thousands of pounds to at least 18 former employees, and is in multiple legal disputes with clients for unfulfilled promises and broken contracts. He did what he did to me (not send the money to my account) to at least other woman and refused to pay the mother of a disabled child her wages going back months in unpaid invoices unless she signed a NDA on his activities. I cannot stress how much you should avoid Paul Blanchard.

1.0
4 Mar 2020

Awful management

Recommend
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Pros

Pays more than the average PR role, but that's to keep you from leaving

Cons

insanely abusive culture you will be expected to tolerate being humiliated in front of the whole team and shouted at and called useless and expected to work around the clock. I worked 8.30am to 8pm most days and was told i was being fired for not doing enough. You'll be yelled at for spelling mistakes or errors in meeting documents and routinely threatened with being fired. Management lies about you and the team and complains about you to cover their backs takes credit for your work and is completely believed as CEO isnt in the office. Disciplinaries are weekly and team anxiety is really high. Saw multiple normal people have mental breakdowns. Always losing clients and staff every month. You wont be hired so he can get around constructive dismissal and workplace bullying and tax. Hires young women because they will take more abuse from him and are eyecandy for clients. DO NOT work here.

1.0
24 Feb 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

High salary, pros of taking clients out to members clubs and nice restaurants

Cons

Horrible boss, demeaning, micro-manager, expects you to work long hours, frets over every single mistake including typos in emails, was abusive to some members of the team

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