KRNV

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

KRNV is a good station to work for if you want to get therapy; because this newsroom will ensure you need it. Coworkers are great, but management (for the most part) will ensure you lie in bed every morning as long as you can, staring into the abyss asking yourself how you can get through one more day. Support for employees is minimal (not there at all) so you must be a self-starter to have a remote chance to succeed. In other words, expect to work outside of your shift, but don't expect any appreciation or payment for doing so. Reporters have been sent to riots with no safety precautions. Shifts are structured in a way that makes you question your life choices on a daily basis. Stories are shot down or changed on a whim with no explanation just to send crews hours away to nonexistent news. (Happens on many occasions). Don't expect a steady schedule because there's a good chance yours will change on a week-to-week basis due to poor management and high turnover. This newsroom legitimately could have been one of the best in the west (yes, even compared to SF and Sacramento), but the insanity behind management's decision making ensured that potential was never realized. Virtually all of the photographers left, all meteorologists quit within a few months of each other (again, terrible foresight by management), and producers and reporters enter and exit like it's some kind of carnival ride in hell. Active investigations have been brought forth against the ND with no results. Employees have confided as much and admit they're on the verge of mental breakdowns. Reno rests in a lovely area, but the salary compared to the cost of living and affects on your mental health means you should avoid at all costs.

Avoid if you can. Despite a great set of coworkers, the taxing toll on mental health will make you regret your decision almost immediately. Many have broken contracts just to get out. They weren't the first and won't be the last.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

The above mostly covers it, but I know this is a starter station and I cant even imagine how disappointed people must be to come here and think this is how news is. Its a tough job already, but Greg and Jason really team up perfectly to make getting underpaid and under appreciated feel like the least of their dissatisfaction. The goal of Greg seems to be hitting the nail the same way until the hammer breaks, then blame the nail and then finding a new nail for it to happen again all while using the same now broken hammer. Nothing changes there. This station has seen covid outbreaks where Greg has tried to get people to come into work while sick because he cant hire or retain people enough to afford people being sick, the station is currently under a cyberattack but Greg and Jason still expect everything to run as normal, and the station is somehow dead last with the most corporate financial support out of the 3 stations. Whats even more shocking is the TALENT the station has. Its the people who wear many hats, bound by contract, that literally hold the station together. Ive seen people there that literally have Market 10 and lower ability and zero respect to their flexibility during everything. This is the kind of news station that is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

There are great people here. Dont get me wrong. I just hope one day a ND can sit with those people and hear them. Theres lots of good ideas, but a horrible couple of listeners. I believe Gregs only goal everyday is to keep his job rather than grow the station.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Greg tells many lies, gaslights in order to get his way, avoids serious issues, and refuses to listen to anything outside what he believes. He is arrogant, manipulative, and a terrible manager.

Greg Schieferstein does not need to be a manager, let alone the news director. He is the most toxic employer I have ever worked for. HR does nothing about him. They are corrupt as well. Do not work here. If you want to work in Reno, work for Channel 2 or KOLO. At least until Greg is gone. Not to mention he makes very inappropriate comments towards women, many of which cried in response to his remarks. Avoid at all costs. This is not a healthy introduction to journalism

Sexual Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Racial Discrimination‎: Greg makes open comments about race and has even told reporters he only hired them because of their ethnicity. Sexual Discrimination‎: Greg only gives certain stories to male reporters. If your a woman get ready to fight just to keep your stories. An Overall Toxic Work Environment‎: Creativity is so discouraged that you will do the same thing day in and day out because anything you do out of the norm will get you a special meeting to yell at you.

COVID-19 was treated like a joke at this station Greg Schieferstein never wears his mask right and calls people into his office and takes his mask of to yell at them. They had a COVID-19 outbreak in the station and tried to cover it up. A lot of the staff got sick and Greg never once asked it they where ok.

Sexual Harassment, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Greg has created a toxic newsroom. Since March of 2019, when he was hired, we have lost the institutional knowledge of more than half a dozen producers, reporters, anchors and mets. Some of which broke contract to get away. Greg played stupid, told lies and did nothing to keep these people on. Now he has a newsroom where no one has standing bridge of respect or communication with him. He can literally not speak to women properly and has has sexual harassment claims brought against him. There was not a single employee during my time there that would not complain about Greg’s lack of news judgement or him just being clueless. In blows my mind that Sinclair or even the GM dont see the trend considering most of them left horrible reviews of Greg with them. That station will not grow until he is gone. I am glad I got out, but my fellow on air staff and producers were great people. Also, the review from July of last year ok this site is not only inaccurate, but ingenuine. We have had ZERO reporters come from other markets and then leave around that time, so it must be someone trying to paint a different picture.

Ask any of the reporters or producers there about this station prior to accepting any offer. They will give you the best indication of how things are, but I just left and I am saying until Greg is gone this place is without a paddle.