Disappointment - Anonymous employee Jokes4Miles Employee Review

1.0
11 Oct 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Great overall goal (in theory, not practice) -Meeting great people (minus management)

Cons

-Free "food"- typically expired or questionable at best -Constantly fearing being fired for no reason at all -Pressure to work for free, I mean "volunteer", outside of your 40 hour work week which I was personally being paid $10/hour for when I have college degree -Lack of organization- was told when I started in September 2015 that the site was launching in November 2015. Just checked in and it's still not up. Not surprised in the least. -Management is ungrateful- you receive no recognition or real acknowledgement of your work -Being told "this is how we do it in the biz" when you question anything or accidentally apologize for an error (I'm pretty sure working in a run down basement on the NW side of Chicago with no actual output isn't the "biz") -Doing personal laundry, cleaning litter boxes and cleaning apartments when you were hired to do marketing/PR. You'll spend about 10% of your time actually doing so. -Disappointment in not seeing any progress made towards the goal of the organization. Especially when you took the job with the excitement of working for an organization you thought would be making a difference in the world.

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5.0
2 Oct 2023
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Pros

great culture and group of people

Cons

could have had better communication

1.0
26 Mar 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Please understand, I say all of this BOTH as a survivor of childhood cancer AND someone that Len Austrevich emotionally and mentally abused as an employee. There were no pros to this job. Thank god this company shut down. What little good they did for children with cancer was heavily outweighed by the misery that Len brought to his many employees of the years. The only positive was that many of my fellow co-workers were incredible people that also wanted to do good. I'm glad I got to meet them. Im sorry that they endured this abusive workplace.

Cons

This job was soul sucking. Its been years since I worked there and am leaving this review so people understand the real legacy of this place. It was one of the worst times in my life. There were some wonderful people working alongside me and I saw the light leave their eyes after a few months of scraping dog poop and cat vomit and cleaning the owners disgusting apartments - after being hired for a VIDEO PRODUCTION role. Read any of the negative reviews - they tell the real story. The positive reviews were written by management themselves or employees that were coerced / asked to write a positive review. FYI - Years ago we reported them to the Bureau of Labor - only to be told that J4M "didn't qualify as a real company" and therefore were out of the Bureaus jurisdiction. Just let that sink in for a minute.

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