KRDO

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Mike Rausch is getting fired. Praise Jesus. The more I worked with him, the more I realized how mentally unstable and petty the man really is. When he was the News Director of KATU, he filed a police report because a satirical website made a parody of one of his reporters. Furthermore, he even filed a hate crime report to the FBI. Over. A. Joke. And that is what Rausch has been throughout his career -- a joke. Let's see. Ratings are down, morale is down, he forced our beloved Executive Producer Natalie to quit and replaced her with a known sexual predator. There is no way Rausch couldn't have known that unless he is very incompetent...oh wait...yes he is. Mike and his yes men minions are finally getting booted out of KRDO.

Working here really damaged my love for the news industry.

Sexual Harassment, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

From false accusations to belittling employees and violating laws, Mike Rausch has left an incredible stench here at KRDO. The good news is that he was forced to resign relatively recently. Cindy Dixon, once our extremely useless Assistant News Director, was also canned.

Next step is to remove our porn addict Matthew Zelkind...

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Rausch needs to be replaced. As good as the new GM is, I’m surprised and highly disappointed that Rausch is still employed there. He is an arrogant, self-serving jerk whose hobbies are to make the lives of everyone under his supervision cow-tow to his extreme alt-right philosophies and if you don’t tow the line, he’ll make your life miserable!

There are some great people working at this station. The new GM is miles better than the previous one and is trying hard to make a difference. Why he keeps a ND around who belittles and berates his employees, is a mystery. If the ND and his little “yes men” minions were gone, the station’s morale would jump 10 points.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

It is absolutely incredible that the station hired a sexual predator like Zelkind, the guy is revolting. He is completely inappropriate. In fact he has a history of sexual harassment in his prior station, he was fired for it. He must have someone higher up that is protecting him, since he does not even know or can't do his job as executive producer job.

Until Zelkind is there, it will not be a good work environment, it will remain toxic.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Zelkind stirs things up, blows everything out of proportion. He should learn his job before he tries to tell others what to do...what a joke!!!!

Don't work for Zelkind. Mike is alright but can't understand why he keeps an incompetent Executive Producer.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

When I first joined KRDO, I was at the happiest point in my life. About two weeks in, I was ready to commit seppuku. I never felt welcome at KRDO. I am not talking about my co-workers necessarily. Those guys were great. It’s really the management. News meetings are honestly a waste of time. You sit at 9 am and listen to Mike Rausch talk about himself for half an hour. Meanwhile, valuable time is wasted, with not a lot of production. Personally, I skipped a lot of the meetings because I simply can’t waste 30 minutes when I am on a tight deadline. Talk about how cool you are some other time. We have work to do.

I will say that we were open to creative control to an extent, but not very much.

Mike runs a tight ship and undercuts his staff. He will go behind his employees’ back to undermine their decisions.

Rausch has a history of violating journalistic principle. He even hired a new Executive Producer who was fired from his previous job for being a sexual pervert. Moreover, Rausch waited several months to add his name onto the website to avoid backlash.

While KRDO has tremendous employees and is somewhat open to creative control, this is not a good place to work.

Mike has single handedly ruined the legacy of this station. Pikes Peak Television needs to get rid of its village idiot.