Alderman Reviews

If money is what you are chasing, this is not the place to work. Raises are far and few between, even if you are a talented employee. There are no ways to move up in the company. You are either the manager or the employee (and all of the manager positions were filled over a decade ago and those managers will be there until they retire). Management dictates what employees work on what projects (favoritism comes in to play, unfortunately) and also screens what the client ultimately sees, and that can be limiting in creativity and opportunity. The studio is physically dark and you do not see outside all day unless you leave at lunch.

Alderman needs to improve its toxic work environment, starting with management. A lot of the time managers are causing the issues. They could implement some changes to solve the problems, but they’d rather play favorites, and/or not put restrictions on their own toxic behaviors. The majority of our managers are passive-aggressive, micro-managing, and unsupportive. The company as a whole has issues with boundaries, especially in the photography/digital departments. Again, management plays an active role in our issue with sexual harassment/sexism. HR needs to step it up. We’ve had employees leave because HR didn’t want to interfere. Also, we need work-life balance. We’re required to work overtime, during lunch, in the evenings, and on weekends, often times without notice. It doesn’t help that the favs goof off the majority of the time with the managers. Again, managers enable it. This forces the rest of us to pick up the slack, it’s no wonder we have issues with burnout.