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An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Senior staff only care about their own positions. Would regularly withhold promotional goods for staff and keep it for themselves. Constant scheduling problems, they never had enough staff and would schedule multiple members off at the same time and scramble when they realized their mistakes. Did not care about improving reporters skills. They lied to their staff about information in contracts. Staff constantly overworked and was strongly suggested that if you couldn't get your stories done in the time they told you to do it in, then it was not their responsibility to pay overtime and you shouldn't report it because it was your own fault. Overworked staff to the point where I saw several people crying in the news room. Never cleaned station vehicles, they all pretty much had a rotten food smell in them.

After my contract ended, staff refused to return calls and assist me with new employment, I worked under Ruiz for only a week and he decided to black list me by lying to stations that I had been applying too. They paid very little even for a small market. Very little room for upward movement or cross training. Constantly critical without offering suggestions for improvement. Most equipment did not work with engineers that either didn't know how or didn't want to fix broken equipment. Examples: used an actual nickle to re-level one of the studio camera. I also needed my tripod fixed (simple tightening of a bolt) and while the engineer was explaining how it couldn't be fixed, I fixed it myself.