Visiting Media Reviews

At this point, Visiting Media has reportedly laid off somewhere around 25% of employees. Almost everyone on my team hired in early 2023 has been laid off. Whatever growth we saw and were being fed when we were hired, erased. This isn't the shady part. There have been rumors swirling around that Visiting Media was on the verge of losing a major customer which would be a very significant loss for the company. These rumblings started only 1-2 weeks prior to the layoff announcements. We just had an all-company summit where everyone was flown out to Carlton, OR and we had a huge hoo-rah about the health of the business and the future growth we were going to see. By all accounts, the executive leadership was feeding us lies about some bright future that would come crumbling less than 2 months later. The shady thing is that of everyone laid off, it was the executives and ICs with no ties to the previous years of the company. From what we've heard so far, no executive leadership was let go and ICs with ties to Ben the CEO or other core leaders were let go. It leaves a very sour taste in my mouth to believe that completely out of the blue anyone not in the "in" crowd would be let go so suddenly. Nearly entire departments were let go in the midst of what is supposed to be the company's big launch of TrueTourX. I'm left wondering how long they knew the writing was on the wall. I wonder if they lost the major customer. I wonder why certain seemingly less impactful roles were spared while others that actually move the needle but were close with OG leaders were let go. There's a massive gap in transparency that's become very apparent. I would stay away until the dust settles.

- Lack of structure in training/expectations - Feeling like you're bothering people when you have questions. Not that I'm not down to figure it out, but I need a clear set of expectations and to make sure I understand what I'm doing. - Getting thrown into start working the job full time and having meetings with people before being fully trained. Didn't feel totally set up for success and felt like only half of my questions would be answered when I asked. - No plan for speaking with non-english speaking people even know they're moving into markets all over the world. - Rude IT guy