Toxic Environment, No Respect, Low Pay - Anonymous employee Davis Harrison Dion Employee Review

This place and my experiences there are the reason I have chosen to no longer work in advertising. Truly ruined any enjoyment and passion I had for the work. Senior leadership is impossible to please. They give conflicting directions and enjoy mircromanaging. They also do not actually care about the mental health, work/life balance, or general happiness of their employees. I was fresh out of college and so excited to start my advertising career when I started this role. I left the job a year later with plans to never work in an advertising agency again. The sad part is it had nothing to do with the work. I enjoyed the work and the things I got to do daily. It is the politics of agency life, low income, and lack of upward mobility that really soured me on the field. I received no training when I started. Absolutely none. Despite being told in interviews that they'd train me. I was also given different direction from what my job duties actually were by the partners, senior account manager, and account managers I worked with. Despite voicing these concerns, nothing changed. I took on multiple hats during my time here and not only was it not appreciated, it was impossible to manage. Leadership giving you a compliment is truly like pulling teeth, but they are quick to tell you all the things you do wrong (despite not being trained and figuring it all out yourself). But rarely tell you when you did something right or the clients really appreciated your work. I have heard the partners say extremely inappropriate things to their employees (think racism and sexism). They also don't care about employee safety. During the height of COVID and with a COVID outbreak IN THE OFFICE, they pretended it wasn't happening. Shut the door to the office where the infected person worked and told everyone to carry on as usual. They ignored any concerns about this brought up by employees and still expected you to be in the office daily. The final straw for me was when I learned I was doing more work than others in the same or similar roles but being paid less. In a discussion about this with a partner, they proceeded to pull out my job description and actively read it to me like I was incompetent. If the job description is not what my daily life is like in this role, then what good is it? They didn't have much of an answer or a solution. Just said "well, this is what we hired you for" and I explained that it does not matter when other members of leadership are asking me to do additional tasks. No solutions were offered. The best sum of the way the whole experience went for me is when I offered my two week resignation letter, the partner in question slammed their fist against the table on my way out (this after our discussion on job responsibilities). They also told me they didn't need me to take my full two weeks and could leave after just one. No job is worth that much mental and emotional stress and general disrespect. I was not even getting paid enough to rent an apartment in the city so my commute was 3 hours a day. Also not worth the way I felt coming to work every day. Yes, I gained a lot of knowledge, experience and skills. But it was at the cost of my happiness, mental health, dignity, and overall enjoyment of the field. In sum, my best advice is to run