This Con is Corrupt! - Anonymous employee Comic-Con International Employee Review

Senior management is run like a dictatorship. Google the president for an insight into the type of people running the place. Senior leadership jobs are filled based on how long someone had been a volunteer prior to being hired, not by their skill set and so there are a lot of underqualified people in charge. Employees are jumping ship left and right because of how they are treated. It is a very unsupportive and often hostile work environment that comes from the top down. The museum lost everyone but two people from their team in July because the money they raised seems to have been used for other projects and just to pay bills for the larger organization. The HR department is a joke. Complaints about treatment by upper management goes to the same upper management so nothing ever changes. Leadership refused to do anything in celebration of Juneteenth and Pride, and when most of the rank and file employees went to management begging them to put out a post in support of the BLM movement, management refused. This seems out of line with the inclusivity that Comic-Con is supposed to represent. Salaries were cut by 20% more than a year ago and benefits have been reduced, yet the board is still being paid salaries at higher levels than most staff. Board members who work maybe 10 hours each month are paid salaries higher than most of the staff.