I worked at Artix Entertainment full-time for more than a year

Cons

I was straight up bullied by a couple of employees there and instead of anything being done about it, I was repeatedly victim blamed and then eventually got let go for it. HR is absolutely useless. I'm going to provide some very specific examples. The person who initially trained me was extremely passive aggressive and always made me feel like I was in trouble even when I could prove I did nothing wrong. The accountant was the same way, on top of being sexist and rude. It's like they all wanted to see me fail before I even had a chance to start. Then there was the person I had the misfortune to work closely with, the merch guy. It started off okay, but then I started dating another employee (which is 100% allowed there) and merch guy got jealous and decided to make my life working there absolutely miserable. I'll try to make this short: he constantly made vague threats about me losing my job, he was a complete jerk in general, he pushed all his work onto me and took endless days off (no repercussions, he 's the CEO's friend), leaving me to deal with mountains of HIS WORK on my own. Let me clarify something. I was meant to partially be merch guy's assistant on top of all my other office duties. I ended up doing his job for him while he messed around most of the time. I repeatedly reported these things to HR, the CEO, the COO, and basically anyone with any power who would listen and I was brushed off time and time again. They would make false promises of "dealing with it" but merch guy is so manipulative that nothing ever came of it. I could go on and on about the mental anguish I went through dealing with what merch guy put me through while nothing was being done about it, but this would become a novel. Let me just say I ended up getting prescribed antidepressant and anti-anxiety medication from working there. I still have emotional and mental scars from it. Lastly, I was told I was getting a promotion. Guess what? This "promotion" included even MORE responsibilities with the same garbage pay. Yeah, don't accept any "promotions" from these people, you'll end up screwed. The "promotion" was meant for me to become the CEO's assistant. I told them that I would happily be his assistant in the office, but I refuse to run personal errands for him...like go to his house and do his laundry. Yep, I heard stories. Well apparently a servant was exactly what he wanted and since I didn't want to do that and I openly criticized and called out his friends for bullying me, I got let go. There's more to these stories, but again, I'm not trying to write a novel. Just giving you an idea for the kind of people that work here and the way they operate and treat other employees. tl;dr cons are trash pay for the work you're expected to do, and awful treatment under the guise of """"we're family"""" unless you're a top artist or programmer or if you heavily brown nose the CEO (even then it's debatable)