Pros
- No matter how much the people here drag down your self-esteem and make you think you can't do better than MediaVision, the sheer amount of career-competency stories attained from working here will make you an attractive candidate for all the jobs you apply for once you start trying to escape this shithole. - You'll also have an array of comedic stories to tell your friends at dinner parties once the trauma wears off. This is an insanely character-building place to work at. - Working here might as well be a video game: Level 1.) Lovebombing: making you feel special when they're trying to recruit you into their cult. Bonus points if you're a naive junior or graduate who's too desperate for a job to have standards. Level 2.) A test. Do you fit into the inner circle? Do you have any relatives here? Close friends? A masochistic attitude to work? If the answer is yes, you're powerful enough to win the game. If the answer is no, well brace yourself for the next level. Level 3.) You start to notice some off-things about the company. Your colleagues start being more transparent and the plastered smiles begin to wear off. Level 3.) You make a mistake. After that, you're marked. Anything else that goes wrong after that will be your fault and you go from Perfect New Employee to another victim of this blame game. Level 4.) You begin taking part in the blame-game yourself because you're afraid of getting fired. All this anxiety just causes you to make even more mistakes. By this point, the smiles on your colleagues are completely gone. They're not even faking it anymore and they're ready to attack if you make one more wrong move. Level 5.) All out war: this is when your mental health starts to truly depricate. The job will take over your life. You start to see their time sheets in your sleep. Nightmares of those daily standups and your manager's voice crying out to you. Every. Minute. Must. Be. Logged. New policies come in for deliberately goading people into resigning. You were told the company is remote? Nah, start coming into the London office even though you live six hours away. If you can't do it, see you. Sorry, we can't give you a pay raise so that you can just move closer to the office. Still, you try to stick it out because you don't even have enough time to fully commit applying for other jobs, and you don't want to quit without having another job lined up. Don't worry, you're marked anyway. The beauty of this place is that if you don't have the power to leave, they'll make sure do it eventually. Level 6: Either through an easy escape or losing the all out war and being fired. You're out. Congratulations. You've completed the Game of MediaVision. You're a new person. The job world is your oyster now. It can only go up from here!
Cons
There are none. Heck, look at all the pros of working here :)
