ASCAP reviews

Micromanaged like never before. Treated like a five year old. Accused of lying if you miscalculate seating. No trust or teamwork despite being one third of a three person team. Managers only notice when you don't get a license, never any recognition when you license a huge place that's never been able to be licensed by anyone before. It was like being around middle school clicks and blacktop bullies (the co-workers, that is) They question every single item on your expense report. They don't reimburse you for basic office supplies like printer ink, despite you having to print all the licenses and zones from home. The supposed policy is you can stay in a hotel with reimbursement if you're more than 75 miles from home, but they question and fight reimbursing you for the week long stay. Many times it would cost more in time and gas going back and forth for the week than if they just covered the hotel. But then again, they don't respect your time, so it's "free" for all they care. You have to use your own personal car and it can't be older than five years. (Because everyone wants to run their four or five year old car into the ground) NOT! If they feel you didn't pull your weight on a particular month, they will keep your third of the commission and give it to the other two people on the team. Totally play favorites. When my manager rode with me, he kept me out in the field until 8:30 pm on a Friday night and an hour from my home, despite him knowing I'm a single mom of two kids. No work-life balance. No time to recharge mentally or physically. Lowest salary I've ever taken, but was desperate. The hiring manager truly beefed up the "potential earnings." I feel badly for anyone that takes a job with this company and I'd love to help more by continuing to list the "cons" but I'm hoping you're never desperate enough to have to take this job. It's not at all about the music, so be clear on that if that's why you're taking the job. It's not even really a sales job because there's a limit to how much money you can make. You can't up-sell anything to anyone because it's a flat rate. Huge, huge, huge turnover in reps. That should've been my first red flag, but I didn't trust my first instinct when I know better. I hope y'all get the idea.

Where to start... such a toxic environment the place is a mess and lacks any formal process or structure. The amount of bureaucracy the new CEO and management team has been able to create in their short time at the org is almost impressive. Resources are not being distributed evenly across the company and instead of fixing operations they are continuing to build on top of a decaying and crumbling foundation. A lot of employees are stuck in jobs because of silo'd experience and those who have the transferable skills are beginning to move elsewhere. The turn over has been incredible and it seems like a new (valued) person is leaving every week. CEO and management refuse to acknowledge this as a sign or fault in their ways but rather playing it off as healthy turn over.