Four Entertainment Group Reviews

I was looking forward to working for the locally owned 4EG. Unfortunately, the staff seems extremely tight knit and they don't care to make sure that their new hires are welcomed into the company with open arms. I experienced blatant disrespect on several occasions by one specific manager where my direct supervisors showed little to no interest in addressing it every time it occurred. I wasn't given any sufficient training or guidance on how to address things of that manner by myself or accomplish anything I was assigned to do. Although I firmly believe that managers should not be aggressive and emotionally charged in their communication with coworkers, I attribute this manager's distress to one of the owners. He was assigned as my point of contact while completing a massive project, and it was clear that every time I talked to him, he became angry in his response and unwilling to continue work with me. If the owner in question was aware of the distress his assignment had cause, he could have made the informed decision to assign a different contact. Instead, I am getting the brut of a grown man's aggression that definitely does not originate from our conversations. I hadn't worked there long enough to develop any sort of relationship with this guy, and my emails were strictly task related. The owners should care more to find out what the root of his anger stems from, instead of assigning a new hire to correspond with someone who doesn't have the time, is verbally abusive and has reached his limits. I also attribute the extreme lack of communication amongst team members to this same owner and my direct supervisor in HR. The three times the emotionally charged manager attacked me via email can all be attributed to this deficiency and the fact that they simply do not communicate anything to anyone it concerns. The miscommunication was acknowledged once, yet never rectified. As a result, the following encounters with this rude manager were continually caused by the fact that our supervisors were not keeping us on the same page, but expected us to remain in contact while finishing a massive project, ALL WHILE having two challenging and very different ideas on how we were TOLD we would go about it. To top all the stress off, I was promised training in January for a web based application that I had to heavily use while completing this project with the rude manager, and others. March had come, I still hadn't been trained, and I was using this application more than ever before. The aggressive manager very rudely addressed me by email for misunderstanding something I asked him to double check, but the reason for my misunderstanding in the first place is that I hadn't ever received proper training. When I was terminated, I was yelled at for the misunderstanding. I was told that because I was wrong and the manager was a "busy guy," I likely deserved to be talked to rudely. You would assume that if the owner knew then that "he's a busy guy," he wouldn't have assigned him to be a point of contact for a massive project with me. Ultimately, I was let go for "insubordination" when I asked this manager to be business professional in our communcation to each other because he was consistently emotionally charged in our correspondence. His disposition is definitely the fault of the owners, HR, and their extremely lacking communication skills and nonexistent training for new hires. There is lack of accountability being held across the board, and a complete disregard for addressing the problematic behavior this manager exhibited. I had to choose to either deal with the abuse or be fired. Do not work for this place if you expect to be treated with the respect that you give and for your efforts to be valued. They will blame the problems they have perpetuated on you.