The Daily Meal Reviews

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Bad leadership, bad ceo, salary low, dirty office

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A key key leaders were using the scapegoating method on junior employees

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There wasn’t any room for growth and the salary was terrible

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CEO was literally a horrible human being

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Can be extremely busy sometimes and could use a little more coverage when that happens. Turnover can be high, but that is also attributed to needing a very strong worth ethic to thrive here.

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No real training-- I was expected to know what to do on the first day on the Internship with absolutely no guidance. A week into the internship, I had gotten a hang of what the expectations were, but I would have better succeeded if I was given some sort of direction every one in a while.

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Where to start. The fact that cleanliness is something that varies on a day to day basis is concerning. We don’t live in a third world country, this isn’t a hospital or a homeless shelter so people shouldn’t be pooping on the floor (I wish I was kidding). We should be able to have access to drinking water and toilet paper. TDM doesn’t pay for a consistent cleaning service, so trash cans with food are constantly overflowing which means we have a constant mouse problem. I can only speak for the editorial side of things, but as stated before it is a content sweatshop. Writing multiple stories in one day, only having one copy editor, one photo editor and one graphic designer to do an exponential amount of work. They care more about numbers, getting clicks and making money than the welfare of their employees. The internet is always slow and computers always seem to have technical problems. The back end to build a story takes forever. We aren’t allowed to work from home, the website is filled with ads and does not look aesthetically pleasing. They have one person doing the job of 3. Piling more and more work on you till you mess up and can blame it all on you or until you have a mental breakdown. There’s no real training, management doesn’t know how to train the new hires so they are left to fend for themselves or have someone else teach them. I have seen so many people quit in the time that I have been here. On average 5 people a month quit (approximately 40 people in the company overall, you do the math…aka not good odds) We DO NOT have an HR department. Employees have been screamed at, cursed at, threatened (with no HR dept I guess that’s how they can get away with treating their employees so badly) We are a slave to MSN- whatever they want, we have to give to them.

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Everything else. The place is a sweatshop of young writers forced to produce an impossible amount of content for meager wages and absolutely zero rewards. If that's not bad enough, the company also asks people to post positive reviews on sites like Glassdoor to make it seem like it's better than it really is. Management is clueless. I hear Spanfeller and Andrews, have since departed. Hopefully new management is steering the place in a better direction.

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CEO Jim Spanfeller is an abusive employer. As others have said, office morale is always low, the workplace is filthy, the pay is between $30-50k below industry standard for each role unless you're in upper management, and they expect employees to crank out pieces at a rate that can only lead to carelessness. If you have any self-worth, avoid this place at all costs.

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Expectations are extremely unreasonable, the workload is about 12 hours a day, the pay is incredibly skimpy (some people working there make 28k, many make 30k), the benefits aren't great, you're not allowed to work from home and are expected to work Christmas Eve, you're expected to spend your sick days pumping out stories, management is unhelpful, lazy, and gives zero direction.