creative director

Atlanta Journal Constitution

The managers I have had were good to great to work with. The company, however, doesn't seem to truly care about the employees. A seven-day work-week, requiring everyone to report for work even when conditions were icy, and not providing enough compensation for mileage reimbursement well below the IRS compensation for mileage were just a few of my reasons for this.
A typical day at work included being there at 1a.m., waiting on the headline truck (which usually was not there until 1:15 or later), and then waiting on the truck to be unloaded and the papers counted. Most days, this process took at least fifteen minutes. Then, going through the line to pick up my designated number of headlines and third-party papers, and taking them back to my table to bag the papers. After bagging, I would load my personal vehicle and then drive out to my route. Delivering my route usually took about three hours.
The most enjoyable part of the job was... the people I worked with and seeing the sun rise every morning.

A typical day at AJC is any day you get to work, and do your route without a problem.
What I learned is the kind of job I was doing at AJC had no upward mobility no raise in your pay no matter how well you worked or how long you have worked with the company.
The AJC maintains a bi-management system. that is, they have two system of management. The administrative management which has superior powers and this comes from the cooperate office. They also have field managers whose interest is not the welfare of the workers, but to see the implementation of policies and regulations coming from coming the cooperate office.
My co-workers were wonderful. We had excellent team-work that usually result to good friendship among the workers.
The hardest part of the work is waking up at 1.00 A.M. in the morning to go to work.
The most enjoyable part of the work is that you are independent when you are doing your route.

My duties are coming into my station and reading my route for the day , What customer is out on vaction are asking for and new request on how they would like there paper deliver to there home.
What I have learn that customer service is number ONE in the business and making the customer happy at any cost. However, my associate are great willing to help you with any problem on your route, are teaching you how to throw the news paper at the customer home in the timley matter. Nevertheless, the hardest thing in the job is during the rainy season and cold reason with the window down inside of your car are truck and it's hard to see from the wind and cold. Now , the enjoyable part of the job is getting out on the road to your route and thinking of a short-cut to my customers needes of deliver on time before the customer leave for work in the morning . A happy customer is a happy job.

Report to the warehouse, receive updates on new customers or route changes, collect and properly package newpapers, transport and distribute them to assigned residential areas. I learned how to efficently time my route, learned navigational skills, complete routes at the assigned deadline. Management works with you if you have any problems such as damage to vehicles, and need assistance with completing deliveries and will make sure you have help, if needed. The hardest part of the job, is waking up at 2:30 am, or need of vehicle repairs. The most enjoyable part of the job, is as soon as you collect your newspapers and travel to your route, you complete your route and go home afterwards, which could be between 3.5 to 5 hours of work; depending on how many newspapers that must be delivered.

My typical day at work will be when the machines that I am working with are not working the way I expected and beating the production dead line for departure the trucks to the field.

What I have learnt  are developed more communication skills, supervising experience, repairing minor problems associate with the machines that I am working with.

The management team are so great and developed as compare to the previous time ago. Know what the company is about to any information before it gets to the employees  and keep them confidential.

Majority of the co-workers that I am working with are so nice and friendly. They are very co-operative and reliable that can be count on.

My hardest part of the job is when I am lack of communication from the management. When a lot of call out from the beginning of the shift or insufficient staffs/employees are schuduled for a certain type of job at certain period of time.

When all the tasks that I had be assigned are complished by the end of the day. At the end of every bi weekly when I get paid.

This was by far the most dysfunctional newspaper I ever worked for. You’ll fit right in if you play politics and kiss butt daily, but question anything or attempt to grow a brain and you’ll likely be banished to some horrific job in Hall County. Yearly evaluations are often an exercise in frustration. Forget about truthfully measuring performance or work quality. Scores of “2,” or below expectations, are doled out like candy, not because staffers "deserve" a 2, but because managers want to keep raises – and subsequently morale – in check. Speaking of morale, it’s lower than a snake’s belly. Recent employee surveys show that folks in the newsroom (heck, the entire paper) don't believe managers practice open, two-way communication and that few staffers believe the AJC fosters an environment in which all can succeed. If there were a list of worst places to work, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution would rank at the top.

Pay was good at first, then found out I was getting paid less than minimum wage after a few months . There was a set rate for both of my routes then it changed. Carrier get charged $3 per complaint even if complaints are false. Make sure everything is on a contract with who you work for or don’t take the job.  You deliver in dangerous conditions at times but no one cares. Everyone is just trying to increase their profits at the expense of others. I now realize why I don’t see so many carriers delivering anymore. Even new people start for a short time then leave.  People who own these contracts need to understand that when you pay people what you agreed on and pay people their worth. You get more people wanting to work for you and do the job right. To be a veteran and come here only to get screwed by the people I was sworn to protect is just baffling to me. 

The AJC is an amazing place to work especially with them being a part of the COX Enterprises family. You get great benefits including but not limited to: free gyms, great cafeteria with the option to visit one of their nearby(within walking distance) buildings with a vast selection of choices, great management, family style environment in most departments, invites to an array of activities outside of work, etc. Of course there are a few issues to contend with as well. They don't often have positions open because most people stay for the length of their careers (that's a pro and con), the company is not the most stable even after all these years since they have done a few layoffs, and it is very hard to get into the company even after interviewing. Overall, it is a great company to work for.

I did a lot of marketing - direct marketing - like the flyers that you receive in your papers on Sundays.  I worked directly with the customer and a program called SalesForce to determine their demo's and decide where and how many pieces they wanted to go out when.

I had a chance to work directly with the art department which was very enjoyable and learned a lot about design.  The most difficult part of the job was when I would have something extremely detailed (like a menu) that we would have to go over again and again and the customer kept changing pricing or ingredients, but eventually we would get it and everyone would be happy.

The little ads were fun and easy and I enjoyed working with the "mom and pop" shops who just want small little ads.

The company has multipe deparments and each department had at least one or two managers and supervisors. Some of the managers were company first and employees last, on the other hand you had managers and supervisors that valued their employees .
A typical day at work is just what is a typical day, you came to work and did what were expected of you, at the end of the day went home. Typical.
Learned; I can't express all the experience that I learned because, I learned from different departments, including my department. One thing I will say it this company always offered managerment training to all 
employees.
I'd like to express that my rating for advancement is for the department in which I was employed, not overall.


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