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Brown Paper Tickets Reviews

1.5

6% would recommend to a friend

(106 total reviews)

Mitch Thrower

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6% positive business outlook

Brown Paper Tickets has an employee rating of 1.5 out of 5 stars, based on 106 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a poor working experience there. The Brown Paper Tickets employee rating is 61% below average for employers within the Arts, entertainment and recreation industry (3.9 stars).

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106 reviews
1.0
22 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You learn the importance of staying current and working with new technologies. It was a valuable lesson for me.

Cons

• Clients were often extremely aggressive and disrespectful • Poor decisions and false promises were made to clients while employees took the blame • Workloads were overwhelming and relentless • The environment led to complete exhaustion and burnout

1.0
7 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The team itself was pretty solid, everyone tried to make it work despite everything collapsing around them.

Cons

• Every three months there was a completely new structure, new reporting lines, new "strategic direction" and nothing ever actually lasted because by the time you figured it out, management would reorganize again and you were thrown right back to square one. • Training on something only to have your entire department turned upside down two weeks later so that process became useless. • It became impossible to plan anything when priorities kept getting shuffled and you were just waiting for the next pointless reorganization instead of actually doing your job. • The worst part is leadership kept acting like restructuring would magically solve everything instead of fixing what was truly broken, as if the problem was never the structure at all but management just kept moving boxes around hoping something would finally stick. • Eventually people stopped caring because what was the point of investing in anything when it would all change again next quarter, and instead of figuring out why employees were leaving, leadership simply reorganized again.

2.0
18 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good if you are willing to stay in a company with absolutely nothing meaningful to offer.

Cons

- This company is the definition of a toxic contact center - The pay was nowhere near enough for the amount of work constantly forced onto people - The harder you worked, the more responsibilities got dumped on you, and management acted like that was perfectly acceptable - Half the time managers were just as confused and unprepared as everyone else, which made getting support frustrating and unreliable - The entire workplace thrived on keeping employees in the dark, then blamed everyone when operations started falling apart - Growth moved at a painfully slow pace, support was practically nonexistent, and most employees stopped speaking up because nothing ever changed - Some weeks became completely unbearable, and the nonstop pressure, constant mixed messages, and endless uncertainty created the kind of stress and anxiety that followed you long after leaving work.

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