KRDO

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

The news station is completely and utterly disorganized. There is hardly any communication between the managers and the staff and when there is an issue, they won't let you know for five weeks and proceed to grill you over a previous mistake you made. There is no encouragement from the managers. The co-workers, on the other hand, are fantastic. We pump each other up, while Cindy Dixon and Mike Rausch will demean your character and call you nasty names until you can no longer function. Then, they have the audacity to question why you are feeling down.

Mike Rausch describes himself as one of the top 100 tv news executives in the country, yet can't even get a mid-level tv station to function halfway decent.

He is a fraud and the story ideas that come out of this dump are stale, old, and downright boring.

Great station aside from Cindy and Mike, but the onions are just too much to bear. They will kill your your passion for this industry because they can't stand their own pathetic lives. Avoid.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

When I was little, I dreamt about being a reporter or anchor for a major news network one day. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but I was ready to put in the work. After studying for four years, getting multiple degrees and working my tail off on horrible shifts, I can honestly say I have lost that passion after working under Mike Rausch and Cindy Davis. While giving "constructive criticism", Mike will demean you and make you feel stupid. Cindy Davis (Assi. ND) is never happy with what you do and will smile at you while completely tearing you down. Their expectations are unrealistic and overkill and they overwork their employees to where we have lost tons of people in the last year. Look, this industry is hard. We work horrible hours, weekends, nights, mornings. We never get holidays off, have four months that we cannot take off, get paid terribly, can never see our family, and get awful comments from viewers. I would hope we could AT LEAST have support from our managers. When you don't want to get out of bed because you hate coming to work, a line has been crossed.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Working under Mike Rausch and his management team is the worst. Mike sets a very hostile environment. He always talks about how great of a reporter he once was yet fails to make his talent better. The newsroom has been a living hell ever since he became the ND (October 2016). His hires are his favorites and it’s obvious. Mike is BAISED and demands all reporters to check The Drudge Report before the morning meetings. How baised can it get? Cindy Davis, the assistant news director treats all the reporters like crap. She’s very condensing, ungrateful, and never is pleased with anyone’s effort. The assignment editor likes to gossip about everyone. Many wonder why he’s there! Reporters only have photogs (except AM reporters) for live shots and are over worked. Trying to get OT approved at KRDO is merely impossible. Management truly doesn’t see value in their employees. KRDO has had amazing reporters but they either were pushed out or broke contract. Working under Mike Rausch and his management team is hard, uncomfortable, and disappointing. Mike makes you want to lose your passion for storytelling!!!!!!! Work at KRDO when he’s NOT the ND.

The the producers, reporters, photographers are all amazing individuals that motivate one another when feeling discouraged (sadly, that’s often).

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Unless you were hired by the News Director, then you feel like your job is always at risk. If you were hired by the News Director, then you will get better treatment then the rest of the employees, to an extent. Regardless you will almost constantly be ripped apart for your work, after working 12+ hour shift without a lunch break. If you decided to sign a salary you will be completely taken advantage of. Also there is a problem with almost every department being understaffed, some of them have been that way for close to a year.

Sexual Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

This place will make you want to get out of the news business.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Communication is non-existant. The way managers speak to reporters is very demeaning and disrespectful. We are expected to have no life outside of work.

There has been a lot of turnover recently because reporter are being burnt out due to poor treatment. We are treated like we are replaceable.