Scribe Reviews

Lots of micromanagement. Logging every type of task, down to the minute, in the central system took up far more (non-billable) time than it was worth, but president wanted to be able to track everyones moves for profitability, even if it wasn't a tightly run ship at the end of the day. Staff is egregiously underpaid, especially considering how highly educated they have to be to qualify; those who stick around seem miserable and resigned to their fate of never being adequately compensated. The low morale is palpable. The office is very bare-bones--you could call it sterile but it was also kind of falling apart--and the arrangement of space felt alienating. Meanwhile the president maintained a luxurious lifestyle of sailboats and fancy homes and jet-setting, which was highly visible in the office. Boys-club/fratty male culture in the technical division of the staff. Position was offered with the pitch that advancement and pay increase would come quickly if you worked hard--turned out there was actually a set timeline for this and it involved a non-guaranteed, modest pay increase after 18 months at the earliest.

The CEO exploits employees with incredibly low pay [nearly minimum wage despite only wanting to hire college graduates with experience] and demanding hours that require you to log every minute of every day and track how long each individual task took you. If you are even a minute short or took an hour too long to do something, you are interrogated by the CEO when he reviews the logs. The CEO also does this while flying back and forth between his expensive homes in philadelphia and florida and going on vacations to Paris and Rome every few months. To make matters worse he hired his wife last year, and now the comp. pays for her to jet set with him all the time, while he claims to his underpaid employees that he cannot afford to give them raises. Stay far, far, far away from this scam of a company.