As stated in the headline, Slice Communications is unfortunately a corporate "agency" in nothing but name.
Humanity has been shipped down the river. As stated in other reviews, your time at Slice will likely come to an end when you need support the most - for example: directly following your mother's death or a severe medical diagnosis, maybe even directly following your wedding but right before your honeymoon. What a better way to plan a funeral or enjoy a honeymoon then doing so while being freshly, unexpectedly laid off?
It's only a matter of time before your role at Slice is replaced with a freelancer, the backs of which the entire companies workload is produced on. Your work/life balance does not matter to the "leadership" that lead only in name.
Case in point: the entire agency of employees find themselves working well above 40 hours just to stay above water with the insane workload. The only team members not actively searching for a way out are the executive team members who are simply committed to making off with as much as possible before going down with the ill-fated ship. Unfortunately for most it's challenging to search for a new job while spinning too many plates in the middle of an earthquake.
You will be repeatedly gaslit in to believing you'll be given the support you need, only to be reprimanded and written up for failing to accomplish a job five ways outside your set description, in which new responsibilities are piled on daily. And forget about taking PTO - if you can manage to get done enough work ahead of time to "take off work," chances are management will find a reason to let you go before your break even starts.
Strategy and creativity are glaringly nonexistent at this firm. Your job isn't to make use of any of the fancy tools the company discusses in their Webinars, but simply to keep the wheels of your over-burdened cart of clients turning as long as possible to keep the checks coming in. The ideal Slice client is one who doesn't understand what social media, marketing, advertising or public relations are so that they don't understand how little their "marketing team" is really doing for them and how much more benefit they could really be getting for their hard earned dollars.
What once may have been an up-and-coming women-owned firm has turned in to a performative "girlboss" corporate chop shop where creativity and career advancement go to die. If you must make your way in to this "peculiar circus of corporate chaos," the best advice (other than simply "don't") is to get in, make as many connections under the big top as you can, and get out as quick as possible. Even then, you'll probably still feel like a clown at the end of it all.
