Station's Ratings
News Dirctors
Producer Job details
Yearly salary
Contract2 yrs.
Paired with a photogN/A
Station market rank#2
Lauren Wepler
a living hell
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
The news director has worked there forever. She comes off like she's your best friend and she's so nice and you might even belive that she is really nice at first. After I started working there everyone warned me about how she is. Everyone is soooo right! Run from this place!
avoid this job at all costs!
Lauren Weppler
Lauren is a kind, fun person but lets some employees get by with the bare minimum. If you are a hard worker, it can work against you in this newsroom
75% of the photogs at this station are still in school and do not know what they’re doing. If you are an MMJ that works with one, you will need to direct them.
Lauren Weppler
Lauren should not be in a management position. She is a lion in sheep's clothing. She will make baseless claims about wanting to support and help you. However, when she's given an opportunity to do so, she will not. Her compliments mean nothing and you should never trust a word that she says. Her treatment towards you will depend on her mood of the day. She is extremely selfish and rewards people based on favoritism instead of merit. Don't be surprised when you see the laziest workers being praised and promoted. She also condones a toxic work environment full of harassment. It's easier for her to hide things than be an actual leader.
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
Management is terrible. You will genuinely question how "higher ups" are able to act the way they do. Lauren is a master manipulator. Younger, inexperienced employees will be taken advantage of. All it takes is a few years in the workforce to figure out her game. Trust me, you're better off working anywhere else.
If you have another option, don't work here.
Lauren Weppler
Horrible doesn’t begin to describe Lauren Weppler. She plays favorites, doesn’t address serious issues, and is very disorganized. Your PTO requests will sit for months, emails unanswered, and concerns brushed aside.
Sexual Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment
Our sports director called a coworker a homophobic slur on a hot mic. The recording will eventually surface as most employees have it or have heard it. He was suspended for awhile. Others had to work to pick up his slack. He posted on social media that he was on vacation during this time to save face. Management hid all of this. Can’t wait for the recording to come out. It wasn’t a slip up. This is his consistent pattern of behavior that he gets away with. The work environment is really bad. Raises, promotions, treatment based off how much you are liked not how good you are at your job. Turnover is crazy. People leave left and right. Until new management comes in or current management take a good hard look in the mirror, this place will always be terrible. Wish I would have known before coming here.
Anchor Job details
Yearly salary
ContractLess than one year
Paired with a photogN/A
Station market rank#2
Lauren Weppler
Lauren is unorganized, sneaky and an instigator. If you speak up for yourself she will begin keeping tabs on you and start putting things into writing to build a paper trail against you to get you fired.
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
Very unhappy and unpleasant place to work unless management favorites you. Lauren likes to change employee's schedules without any thought or concern to their lives. Reporters are overworked and the newsroom is filled with mean and crass producers. One producer in particular loved to send nasty emails to the news director to complain about absolute nothing because she simply doesn't like you. Andrew Asks (assistant news director) doesn't help. He appears to be nice but like Lauren is sneaky and can't be trusted. Turnover is very high here for a reason. Find a better place to work.
Don't work here if you have other options. If you speak up for yourself in any way you will be punished. Professionals who have a high standard and care about their work will be disappointed. Few opportunities to grow.
Lauren Weppler
You can have a good relationship with her as long as she is in a good mood and isn't swamped with work. For example, at the end of the last year (2020), she was being incredibly unfair to employees who created any inconvenience for her as she was trying to hire for different positions and just busy with the news cycle. She mistreated employees who tested positive for COVID-19 because that simply made her job harder.
Sexual Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, An Overall Toxic Work Environment
The sports director has been suspended for using a sexual and homophobic slur during a mic test. Two weeks later, WTOL 11 launched a promo featuring him. Managers will punish those who are good at their jobs, sometimes not giving them promotions, simply because they can't afford to lose them at their positions. They will also reward people who are bad at their jobs with photographers, more resources, etc. Managers will change people's schedules based on a bad worker not being able to handle a certain position without thinking twice about the people who are efficient and how that will affect their lives.
I have worked here for a few years, made really good friends but do not know anyone who is happy about their jobs (who isn't a main anchor or a manager).
