It was only after I got a lawyer and told them what’s up that I was able to leave.” The station manager failed to acknowledge me, my experience, and what I was going through at the station. The HR representative used mentally abusive tactics to get me to comply. The news editor completely dismissed my concerns and provided no other support to resolve an issue. I got in trouble for standing up for myself, especially after the head nighttime anchor kept yelling at me from the studio and the news desk manager told me to go away. I was talked down to, passive-aggressively dismissed, and blown off by others. There is nothing but EGO from the reporters, anchors, and pretty much anyone in management, including executive producers, news editors, assistants, photographers, and assignment desk managers. I was forced to sign a contract before I started which I found odd considering I was not an on-air personality, nor had I the ability to be an on-air personality or do anything else outside of what the contract allowed. There is nothing in the form of support from management, let alone other employees. “I was set up to fail from day one at that station. While working for KSTU this person experienced: This person describes the overall newsroom environment as: Completely insane to ask anyone to do something like this who isn’t trained in being a security or body guard.” I was even told in an email to be “crowd control” during protests… basically don’t let the reporter get attacked or something. Most of the employees were great, but management? Not so much. I left halfway through a 2 year contract and never looked back. That’s when I realized I couldn’t stay anymore and started keeping track of all the OT hours I was working. I like to think every person was trying their best to make the best of that situation, but when I think back on my experience, I think it was more of “quantity over quality.” I was salary and being made to work 14 hour days because they knew they didn’t have to pay me OT. But having to turn the amount of stories we were told to do, with at least one of them being a looklive pkg, was insane to me. When COVID hit, no one knew what to do, so I can give a little grace for that. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I’ve been away from WTXL for a few years now and from what I hear from people I still talk to, it’s the same as it was when I left- horrible. While working for WTXL this person experienced:
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