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Pros

The best thing about the job is the ability to work on your own, with only occasional direct interaction with your supervisor. Hourly pay is $10.00 an hour, but total weekly hours are generally limited to between 20 and 30 hours per week.

Cons

Pay raises only come with a change of job title, and that is rare. There are no medical or dental benefit packages available.

Advice to Senior Management

More direct contact with company supervisors on a regular basis would be helpful in answering questions merchandisers in the field have.

Pros

Flexible hours, casual, relaxed atmosphere, dogs at work

Cons

Poor pay, poor management, little mobility, no bonuses or raises, or incentive to perform, low morale

Pros

Limited flexibility in larger Target/Walmart accounts based on delivery schedule. Pay is $10. Can be physically demanding with heavy magazine totes.

Cons

Communication is via email and phone. Multiple work related emails with downloads and phone contact is required but not paid by the company. Management needs to address this issue and start paying employees for all work related activities outside of store visits. If I want to work for free, I can find all sorts of volunteer opportunities!

Advice to Senior Management

Any work related activities outside of the store need to be paid accordingly.

Pros

You have some flexibility with your schedule. You definitely get your exercise in for the day you work. No one standing over your should watching your every move.

Cons

Not enough pay for the physically demanding position. Your hours can be cut or added to, at any time without notice. Not enough time to take any breaks with the amount of work you are required to finish in a very short amount of time, and if you go over the time alloted a manager is contacted and can choose not to pay you for the overtime worked.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize your employees hard work and pay them for every hour worked.

Pros

Light work environment. Usually quite flexible about letting employees tend to personal matters. Autonomy. Somewhat flexible hours. Opportunities to learn and work with new media.

Cons

Low salary. Low opportunity for advancement. Bureaucracy. High turnover in upper management. The slow, long, continuing process of standardizing procedures from several companies consolidated together over many years.

Advice to Senior Management

Financially investing in employees leads to higher performance expectations. With salaries being as low as they are, many employees end up under-qualified, mis-qualified, or not being as concerned with the well-being of the product or company as they might otherwise be. Also, several people with personal/mental "issues" end up being the ones who will work for such low wages. Generally, this has led to a low sense of professionalism, at least at the "drone" level.

Pros

time off, reasonable work hours

Cons

poor communication by management, low salaries, layoffs are common

Advice to Senior Management

communication more with employees

Pros

good office job. Always something new going on and mind stimulating. Great yooung crowd and nice office building. The old one was better. Great place for good ideas to run with.

Cons

Magazine world is going down hill. Watching layoffs were difficult because of the way they were done. No developement for younger people.

Advice to Senior Management

Better communication thru all levels of management. Dont sugar coat the truth with false hopes. Develope your talent and to come up with better ideas.

Pros

Paycheck arrives on time. Reasonable allowance for vacation days. Free coffee in the kitchen. It's terrible coffee that tastes like plastic, but it is free.

Cons

This company does not believe in developing or retaining talent. Management is patronizing, insular and frequently belittles subordinates. There is no team atmosphere, clear goals or recognition of success. Some management makes decisions, often haphazardly, and barks out the orders to the troops. If you like the idea of being a line worker who is frequently criticized but never rewarded, this is the place for you. If you have half a brain, you would be wise to stay away.

The company has run through three rounds of layoffs, an involuntary furlough program, wage freezes and elimination of 401k benefit in the past 18 months. Many New York positions are being transferred to Florida, a trend that will likely continue as the company continues to cut costs. Since the company went private following its 2009 bankruptcy, management has not communicated any financial or business results to the company, so the operation is a veritable black box. Proceed with caution.

Advice to Senior Management

It is not 1970 anymore. You are not running an industrial company with an assembly line, so stop treating your staff that way. Employees do not feel it is a privilege to work for you, and you should not order them about like subservient minions or beggars. If you took time to recognize the company's core strengths: meaningful brands with loyal followers and creative, talented people the company can be successful. But since you don't, the company is destined to be a two-bit also-ran in a dying industry. As soon as the banks keeping the lights on notice this black hole, they'll shut down this half-assed operation and you'll be out on the street.

Pros

- good benefits
- great magazines to work for

Cons

- Have poor commission structure
- Have downsized a lot.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide reps with more incentives, make goals reachable.

Pros

It's fun to work with movies and music without having a manager hanging over you.
Just as long as you do your job, everything's good.

Cons

THE HANDHELD! You need to have a landline to communicate this think that's the size of an 80s cell phone. The hours were cut three times within a month.

Advice to Senior Management

Maybe find more items to merchandise.