ASCAP Reviews

They make you jump through 2 hoops to get paid. The base pay is at poverty level and there is no way you can live on that if you don't make commission for some reason. In order to receive monthly commission #1 You must meet your team revenue goals at 80%, but then you're only paid out at 10% split between all team members, which is nothing. You have to be 100% every month to receive a 20% payout or more. #2 You must meet a "license count" goal, which has absolutely nothing to do with revenue, making it hard to get compensated. This is a MAJOR monthly obstacle tied to your pay. For instance, you can be at 100% of your revenue (ASCAP GOT THEIR MONEY), but because you didn't meet a "license count", you still will not be paid. License count does not mean reaching 100% of your goal! If you have a goal of 32 licenses per month, but you got only 30 and you met your revenue goal at 80% or more, ASCAP will not pay you. Terrible team based pay structure; your pay is tied to the performance of others. If you meet your goals and another team member doesn't the team doesn't get paid. High level of stress to perform. One of the most stressful work environments you will ever encounter. I would hope that the members that ASCAP represents find out the fear based scare tactics that are used to bring money into the organization. I believe if the songwriters and music composers who ASCAP represents, knew the level of stress and emotional trauma that is passed down from the top to licensing managers all in the name of "music licensing", members would not want to be apart of this organization. I have never heard of an organization where the VP of licensing uses town square public humiliation to encourage performance. His tactics are to humiliate people to perform in front of their peers. He will send out monthly email about your performance and basically threaten your job if you don't perform; calls your performance "disgusting" constantly reminding you that you cost them money and are a liability if you didn't meet your monthly number. You will be told that you "didn't earn your keep" if you don't perform at 100%.

Micromanaged like never before. Treated like a five year old. Accused of lying if you miscalculate seating. No trust or teamwork despite being one third of a three person team. Managers only notice when you don't get a license, never any recognition when you license a huge place that's never been able to be licensed by anyone before. It was like being around middle school clicks and blacktop bullies (the co-workers, that is) They question every single item on your expense report. They don't reimburse you for basic office supplies like printer ink, despite you having to print all the licenses and zones from home. The supposed policy is you can stay in a hotel with reimbursement if you're more than 75 miles from home, but they question and fight reimbursing you for the week long stay. Many times it would cost more in time and gas going back and forth for the week than if they just covered the hotel. But then again, they don't respect your time, so it's "free" for all they care. You have to use your own personal car and it can't be older than five years. (Because everyone wants to run their four or five year old car into the ground) NOT! If they feel you didn't pull your weight on a particular month, they will keep your third of the commission and give it to the other two people on the team. Totally play favorites. When my manager rode with me, he kept me out in the field until 8:30 pm on a Friday night and an hour from my home, despite him knowing I'm a single mom of two kids. No work-life balance. No time to recharge mentally or physically. Lowest salary I've ever taken, but was desperate. The hiring manager truly beefed up the "potential earnings." I feel badly for anyone that takes a job with this company and I'd love to help more by continuing to list the "cons" but I'm hoping you're never desperate enough to have to take this job. It's not at all about the music, so be clear on that if that's why you're taking the job. It's not even really a sales job because there's a limit to how much money you can make. You can't up-sell anything to anyone because it's a flat rate. Huge, huge, huge turnover in reps. That should've been my first red flag, but I didn't trust my first instinct when I know better. I hope y'all get the idea.