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Toxic Sales Department at Detroit Lakes Station - Anonymous employee Leighton Broadcasting Employee Review

1.0
16 July 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The actual broadcast and engineering staff are top-notch, professional and friendly. They, sadly, have absolutely no control over content or management, which is mostly handled by inexperienced, under-qualified sales staff who burned out from other industries.

Cons

The Sales team is completely toxic. I had a job all lined up after I left and (stupidly) let slip where. The day before I started my new job, I received a call that they don't want me as an employee. I was completely stonewalled by HR. I poked and prodded around and found out from a different department that someone on the Leighton sales team said something about me to HR and that's when they made the decision to terminate me - before I had even started my first day no less! I have since applied unsuccessfully at other jobs in the area where, in two cases, the HR department flat-out told me that the Leighton Sales team convinced them I was a toxic hire. All I did was a few hours of work every week that they didn't want to do themselves. They told me it was going to turn into a full-time, properly-paid position that made use of my talents and experience. When that didn't happen after months and months I moved on. That must have insulted someone at Leighton because they made sure that I was blacklisted at every single local business that they have an advertising contract with. Obviously, I consider this extremely unprofessional. Maybe even vulgar. My advice to anybody considering working for Leighton is this: don't work there unless you want to work there forever or plan to move out of the tri-county area after you quit. Leighton Broadcasting will poison your resume and your career prospects. Ambitious career-oriented young people should avoid at all costs!

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Cons

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