Our ship is sinking... - Anonymous employee RPM Advertising Employee Review

As of this past November, RPM has lost its' biggest client and just indiscriminately laid off half of our agency. It's hard to decide where to begin with cons, but it starts with an ineffective, sociopathic senior management team led by an individual who spent more time this past year writing fake 5-star Glassdoor reviews and flying his private jet rather than driving new business and spending the necessary time needed to foster proper relationships with his current clients. Proper, streamlined communication is nonexistent from our agency leadership and rather than receiving regular updates on the state of the agency and its' business, we are kept in the dark until the damage is done. Senior directors are stale and impersonal with little regard for fostering true employee growth and retention. When half our staff was laid off, they cowered away to avoid confrontation. From a technology standpoint, the company is ill-equipped to keep up in this day and age. Our desktop computers are nearing 10+ years old, laptops are nonexistent (as we are not trusted to work remotely) and for the most part the luxuries of a color printer or a scanner are in short supply. Salary-wise it's hard to believe RPM has been open as long as it has been. Salaries are top-heavy to retain the lifers with zero to no agency experience outside the four walls of RPM and for the overworked and underpaid junior and mid-level staff who keep the place in business the money is no where near industry standard. The employee turnover rate was always fairly high, but those of us left to pick up the pieces are madly interviewing to jump ship before we are pulled under the current.