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An Overall Toxic Work Environment

It’s an incredibly rough place to work, especially as an MMJ. I could fill an entire book. Biggest issues: SAFETY! MMJs are live alone every day pretty much no matter what. Live shots while driving to show poor weather conditions is a pretty regular thing too (in the car alone, no photog to help set up, drive or troubleshoot live gear issues... all that while you are trying to navigate icy/ snowy roads and trying to sound halfway decent on TV warning viewers about how unsafe driving conditions are.) Poor Leadership. Management is not receptive to feedback. They have little concern for the well-being of their employees. Many, if not all MMJs that I worked with often felt miserable or even depressed at times because of the work environment. Newsroom is a mess. They are constantly in “crisis mode.” There is no tried and true way things are supposed to go. Every newscast has embarrassing spelling mistakes, graphics issues, tech problems. The ones making the calls have questionable ethics, known to get the story wrong. ABC 57 is not respected by the other stations in the market or by many people in the community. This can sometimes make things tough when you need to get sound from people who lump you in with the station’s bad reputation. I could go on and on and on and on... but here’s the bottom line. All newsrooms have their issues. All first MMJ jobs are tough. When hired at ABC 57, MMJs are warned the experience will be like boot camp. This is not a joke. It will break you down physically, emotionally and mentally every single day. Please take my word for it: it doesn’t have to be THIS hard.

I heard WBST is hiring.