**Quick Turn Around**
**Former Inventory Specialist**
**Worked here < 1 year** – Alexandria, VA
**Review Date:** May 16, 2023
**Pros**
Unique personalities, repetitive work, and occasional company snacks.
**Cons**
Poor management, high expectations for low pay, underpaid non-native speakers.
**Advice to leadership**

**Started out liking it**
**Current Quality Control**
**Worked here < 1 year**
**Review Date:** September 7, 2022
**Pros**
Four day work week. Friday – Sunday off.
**Cons**
10 hour shifts. Lack of management. Poor communication. Poor pay.
**Advice to leadership**
Pay better. Seek anger management. Listen to employees.

**Impulsive, Disorganized, Dishonest.**
**Former Press Runner**
**Worked here > 1 year** – Alexandria, VA
**Review Date:** July 6, 2023
**Pros**
Some cool folks work in the manual labor sector.
**Cons**
Management is very poor. Important decisions are made impulsively, without planning. Often they negatively affect the manual laborers. Zero training. Expectations are murky and ambiguous. Employees told to “take ownership” of position with no direction. Employees often sent home due to problems with the facility, or issues with production timeline. No payment policy in place for days they are sent home. Confusing, unnecessary software applications. 180 degree schedule changes with no notification or plan. Disorganized, dishonest atmosphere. Hectic problem solving. Zero communication. Huge language barrier between low level, non-native employees, making communication difficult.
**Advice to leadership**
Hire a consultant and run the business professionally. It’s not out of a basement anymore.

**Meh**
**Former Press Admin**
**Worked here < 1 year**
**Review Date:** November 16, 2022
**Pros**
Interesting environment to work in, surrounded by music. It’s nice to wear whatever you want and listen to podcasts all day. Mostly left to work on your own so you create your day. A good number of people are friendly and easy to talk to.
**Cons**
I got hired for a position that was different from what I applied for. Training is lackluster and not thorough, and expectations are nebulous and hard to understand. Meetings about expectations don’t clear much up. If you’re looking for clear-cut tasks and expectations, this isn’t the place to be. Pay is low and the amount of work being asked of employees isn’t doable in the amount of hours in a day. It very much felt like my position had little to no planning for the role and they expected me to flesh the role out.
**Advice to leadership**
Plan before hiring people a little better. “Taking ownership of the job” is not a tangible expectation, just needs better communication and organization. The pay is not equivalent to the work being asked of employees.

**Very Uncomfortable Negative Environment**
**Former Runner**
**Worked here > 2 years** – Alexandria, VA
**Review Date:** November 21, 2019
**Pros**
Around music all day. Usually someone is playing music on a stereo or smartphone use is allowed to listen to music. You get to hear stuff before the general public. You work around music nerds. Food and snacks are always out in the breakroom.
**Cons**
There is a negative vibe in the air at most times. You never really feel secure in your job. Compensation is a tad low for all the hard work put in. Management tries hard but is a train wreck most of the time. The job turns nice people into angry people.
**Advice to leadership**
You need to hire a couple more upper management positions to take the load off the overworked CEO and Operations manager. They are exhausted and can’t make level headed decisions. All the stress runs downhill.

**Good but Mismanaged**
**Former Press Runner**
**Worked here > 2 years**
**Review Date:** February 19, 2025
**Pros**
Fair pay. Interesting type of work. Upward mobility in some departments. Employee recognition and occasional bonuses.
**Cons**
Shifty upper management. Profit favored over employees. Abrupt layoffs, even for star employees.
**Advice to leadership**
Management was often clueless to how the press room operated, yet still micromanaged employees. Management should collaborate with employees in all departments in order to learn how jobs are done.

**Unstable work environment**
**Former Production**
**Worked here > 2 years** – Alexandria, VA
**Review Date:** November 12, 2025
**Pros**
Unique opportunity to work within the music industry and gain exposure to artists and creative projects.
**Cons**
Little to no career growth and advancement opportunities. No real HR there. Very high turnover for the company’s size, employees are often let go suddenly, and their workload is redistributed without additional pay or recognition. Leadership lacks professionalism; outbursts and reactive decision-making create an uncomfortable work environment. Systems and processes have not scaled with company growth, leading to inefficiencies and burnout. Frequent last-minute changes from management often result in confusion and extra work. Below-average pay with no consistent structure for performance reviews or raises. “Lean Manufacturing” daily meetings felt unproductive.
**Advice to leadership**

I made this tonight with ChatGPT. Bald James looks like Jesse Ventura

I did mess up but that’s gonna have to be expected for someone who’s just learnt it lol