account executive

delivery manager

press operator

inside sales

summer intern

Gannett

Typical Day - 
Arrived with clipboard in hand, documenting the conditions / products available / issues that needed to be addressed / etc..
Process Payroll from prior shift(s).  Collected / filed prior shift paperwork, dispersed any communications with other departments.  Reviewed e-mail for pass down log from prior shift, lending us direction of issues we need to know or be aware.  Other departments sending e-mails of work load distribution / request / FYI's / etc..
Meet with Lead people to update them of special circumstances / problems to watch for / review training requirements for associates / expectations.  Gain input from Lead people on problems / hurdles they have been facing.
Organize line up for deliveries / assign personnel / review production - past shift to current, plan product movement.
Review quality / safety of production staff on start of shift.  Advise Supervisors of problems / issues seen on walk thru.
Verify production runs against plan / deadlines for competition.  Continued quality / safety checks through-out shift.
Handle or assist in resolving issues during shift
Disperse end of shift reports via e-mail - pass down log / production reports / deadline reports.

Learned - 
Disseminating information on deadline(s) of product distribution / delivery and the effect on a major down stream network.

Management - 
Few Managers were dedicated to getting the job done and handling their share. Most Departmental Managers wanted to pass the buck or point fingers at other Departments when things went wrong. 
I was fortunate to have a Manager that was big in to organization / planning / verification as we fit well together.
  Though we did not always agree on the process / how to handle situations, we bounced ideas and gained a collaborate effort.  Gave us a strong position with other Departments as well as with subordinates.
    Upper Management asked for cost cutting measures / ideas to be presented.  We presented many, some changed the timeliness the field / Customers received deliveries.  Worked through many of the objections, matrix was changed to accommodate.  It was a real win / win.
    Additional cuts input by upper Management were counter productive.  Presented the delays created, issues that had consistently occurred, overwhelming of Production / Transportation areas.  Though presented in a formal, professional, organized method, upper management would not reverse prior decisions on cuts even though they had proven to create an increase in cost.  We ended up losing several middle management team members including my Manager.
     Replacements for those managers had little to no knowledge of the department function.  Making the situation(s) increasingly difficult to manage.

Co-Workers - 
Several good people in the organization, many lacked knowledge of what it means to supervise employees (cannot be done from the office).  Training in other departments was little to none.  Most of the time they had to learn as they go.  My crew was trained initially by myself or lead person, then turned loose to develop on the job with monitoring.
    My staff was not one that required a lot of discipline.  Due to the expectation / rules / procedures being communicated to them initially and on a regular basis.

Hardest part of my job - 
Having to deal with the didn't do anymore than they had to attitude / them trying to pass off their workload to our department.  
Upper Management that was more about pride/ego than safe / smart business practices.  Though upper Management was looking like heroes for cost cutting measures they lost many key personnel / quality suffered / error rate increased.

The management is not good. They need more training on how to management employees. My experience was not good. I experienced racist comments, religious prosecution, and experience the management berating and making fun of former staff members intelligence and availability to complete their task. It was a bad experience. 

I applied for a part time contracted delivery job with this organization. It was the worse experience. I was told I had to do a ride along and bring in my personal information including my social security card and drivers licence. I did all that was requested of me. After the ride along I was told I had to do another day of training to add up to 2 days of training. I did so. After the 2nd day I was told I would have to do 3 days of training and then I would start my route. On the night of the last training. I over heard people talking about taking my routes for Sunday which is the big money day for a carrier. During the training that evening the supervisor told me not to come in the next night even though I was ready to deliver papers on my own I had to wait for the district manager to come back with the contract. So I didn't go in. The following day while I was in church I received a call from the district manager stating that he had just sent the contract to me. He then text me that same information. However, I never received that contract. That evening I did not go in do to a health concern.The following day I was still waiting for the contract which I requested again and never received. Finally I was told I would get a hard copy when I came in that evening. I was planning to go in, but after discussing all that I had gone through with my family we made a decision that this job was not for me. So i informed the management who then sent me an inappropriate text message in the attempt to berate me for deciding to not take the job. 

I did not feel comfortable work for this company in the short few days in which was training. They don't want to pay you for work you complete making your labor slave labor. It is a very uncomfortable divorcement thanks to it's management. The 3 nights I was there the management and other staff made joked and made horrible comments about a former employee who had just been fired. They said this man had a hole in his brain and indicated that he was not smart. I also had a supervisor who said to me "You people have a ton of different names" (She was referring to the fact that I am a black American). She also said I could not afford a $50 per person dinner theater (without knowing what my personal finances are). She indicated that since I am no longer with my child's father that I should be an angry woman and that I am to "happy".  In addition, the management keep referring to the Deseret News as the Mormon paper. They made it seem as if the newspaper was bad because it was as they said a "Mormon" paper. I was very offended by this since I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. One of the managers even had a melt down in regard to the fact that she doesn't believe in God, but does believe in Santa Claus. I was very uncomfortable by this since I am very religious.

This group of individual made the experience a uncomfortable experience for me. I made the best decision for me and my family not  to continue forward with the process. I would not recommend this company.

Just recently got into my new role here. Overall, my experience is so far more positive than negative. Management does give a hoot. I'm not dealing with any manager that doesn't listen nor degrades me. I feel valued in my position by my managers. My role works with everyone in the office but only in the most basic ways as I'm an Office Manager/Admin so I probably can't speak to the nitty gritty of what really goes on but for the most part everyone here is very hard working, fast-paced and extremely motivated as these are young sales people after all. One thing I don't like is how every department is very cliquey. Granted, this has happened at every job I've ever worked at but we are trying to integrate the entire team in the Chicago Office. My two managers for the most part are really great. My one manager seems like he may have a temper sometimes but I think he just deals with stress differently than my second manager. There are also some sour fruits with bad, negative energy here that have worked here for years but that goes to say for most offices. What I like is that I don't get micromanaged but I do have to check in with my managers. Also, sometimes I feel like people look down on me for what my job requires me to do but I think that goes with the territory of the position. We do get weekly lunches and as someone who is responsible for ordering them, they're awesome. We do get discounts from a company called YouDecide which gives discounts on a lot of things. The insurance is average. I've worked in insurance before, the medical is nothing to write home about but it's also not terrible. The reality is that in 2019 getting really good medical insurance means that you're either on a really old plan or your company has the money and decency to cover that amount for every employee. The employee cost portion of the medical isn't horrible but could definitely be better if the company decided to offer better benefits in terms of deductibles and out of pockets and to pay for more of it. The dental, vision, 401K is all a little above average. The location of the office itself is in the East Loop, a block from Millennium Park which is a daily bustling area with lots of food, activities, and fun. The office is located near transit (metra station (only for south running trains) and all L lines. The building is very safe and secure and requires passes to enter all elevators and then additional passes to enter the office. 

One thing I'd like to mention about this office is there's no real sense of inter-departmental camaraderie. People would rather eat and sit at their desks and work than take an actual break, that drives me crazy. We're not robots, we're human beings.

Starting out Gannett will hire just about anyone that knows the basics of design (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop). You have no negotiation in salary - either you accept the job or walk. Just a couple years ago when you were hired you received $12/hr. Now you'll be offered $14, but if you were hired before, your pay doesn't get matched. Raises are a joke if you even get one. The highest raise I've come across, regardless of how well you are at your job, was $0.25/hr. The average pay for Indianapolis in this line of work is $17.
You'll be promised plenty of room to grow and advance, but the work environment here is like cliques in high school. Managers only converse with the 'popular' people, and they'll get any promotions that come up before you're acknowledged as being another possibility.
If you don't do enough ads every day, you'll be shunned. If you do too many ads each day, you'll eventually be pulled aside and told to slow down for your teammates.
Benefits here are decent, I won't lie. You have no say so though of how to handle your 401k. It'll be put into Gannett stock, simple as that. 2 ten minute breaks paid, 1 thirty minute lunch unpaid for each 8 hour work day. You can wear regular street clothes in the print and digital departments and listen to music with headphones. 
Also, expect to be cross trained for other departments after some time, but don't expect to get any further compensation for becoming a better asset to the company. It's not said verbally, but you're given the feeling that if you don't comply and learn a new department's function you won't be there much longer. I know one person who was hired for a certain job and a year later was being asked to step into a paralleling job role. This person refused because they didn't know the programs for this other role - it's not what they applied to or got hired for. A couple months later they were spotted leaving with a box of their belongings from their desk in tears.
So in summary, if you want to build up resume experience to get a senior or upper-level design job later down the road at another company, this place is perfect. Benefits offered to you are very extensive, you get paid vacation/sick days, a retirement fund and weekends off (90% of employees - unless it's been changed, there are a small handful of people in a couple departments who will work on weekends).

Fortunate in that I had a strong, smart manager.  Not everyone does.  Gannett is like many large public companies in that shareholders come first e.g., keep costs low, lots of reports, top-heavy, slower to react than one might like.

You get out of it what you put into it, to some degree.  My suspicion is that corporate culture varies from market to market.  I would keep this in mind as you continue to read.

Admin Compensation: Many office roles pay hourly, including using timecards. Sales compensation is base-heavy:  Be sure you understand the structure before signing on, as each year it could become more difficult to make money.  Highest sales from previous year become minimum goal the next year. (+)  Not anyone's fault.  Just the way it is.  Hard to see the logic in a top producer staying past two years but they do.

Super products you can believe in.  Editorial quality is superb, award-winning. Company committed to online content and marketing, especially video.  It uses a fair amount of freelancers in niche reporting but has a strong presence in investigative journalism at a time when so many major media companies have shuttered their investigative groups.  Reporter Compensation: Average, but then who gets into Journalism for the money? If you're looking at Gannett for editorial work though, you better have your content marketing hat with you.  There's an expectation that you not only produce high quality pieces but that you actively work to promote them via various online tools.

First-rate training provided, online and lengthy, but excellent.  Two stars on work-life balance is my problem, not yours.  Good luck!

After going through several rounds of interviews, relocating to the market, and given promises to have the autonomy to rebuild the advertising department to take advantage of my digital background, I was rudely welcomed with poor training, micro-managing, and no autonomy. My first day I was welcomed by the HR person when I was going over the paperwork and she told me "I was going to have my hands full. There is a lot of dysfunction here."

One person was on leave to avoid termination. Another AE went on a 6 week medical leave. Two people were terminated based on prior poor performance, and when I got one person back, another took a medical leave. Throughout the entire experience, I was held responsible for much of the dysfunction and sales results. 

Stay away from all Gannett opportunities. They are cutting costs and eliminating positions everywhere...leading to poor moral, and an unsettling culture. The salary was ok, but the bonus structure was poor. No pay plan would have been worth it considering the chaos and poor work environment I was thrust into.

Lack of Transparency
Beware,  the recruiters for  Nashville will tell you whatever you want to hear. My entire team was created and hired at the same time and we weren’t informed that we would be required to make sales (it wasn’t a selling position) nor were we told that we were starting during a “restructure” also known as everyone in Advertising had to reapply for their jobs. And so many people left, more than they were expecting.
 
After the restructure, I saw five new hires start and leave within a month of their start date. That’s the kind of culture being bred here. 

Communication
Inability of Management to communicate effectively. One member of the team was often told one thing, another not, etc. leading to ridiculous levels of confusion.
 
We received Zero leadership during the restructure. Everyone was left on their own. Embarrassing for a company of Gannett’s size. 

Management
Management was a joke when I started. They did hire a VP that cares, but now two sales leadership roles have been vacated and the editor in Chief is out as well. Leads to more chaos

Optimization Team
In April they hired a 4-person team for “optimization” — basically golorified secretaries that were also supposed to sell. But hey hired people established in their careers and who craved advancement, which they couldn’t provide. So, 9 months later and the original team is completely gone. But the manager they hired to lead them is still there, despite at least 3 of the employees citing his inexperience and inability to manage as at least part of the reason they were leaving.

Blood, sweat, tears. I've been through every iteration of growth for this company and just as it finally turned a corner that could have been the very launch-pad needed, they brought in the wrong leadership who are trying to replicate the failing models of Yodle and ReachLocal, nearly a decade too late.

Inter-organizational communication is a train wreck. The former senior leadership were trapped by the larger politics of the Gannett beast. The new leadership are suits and completely disconnected from the industry and the employees and are only about the bottom line. Cutting salaries, not paying commissions or biz expenses, killing off their true leaders and are doing what many there feel is impossible - creating an even bigger work/life imbalance. 

I saw them crush one of our best and brightest leaders without any warning just a few weeks ago. He had built initiatives and teams that were doing amazing things. 

So if you want to work much harder than you should be compensated for, with no validation, appreciation, or real progress resulting from for your work, then go for it.I would be vary wary of anything you are promised if it is not written in your offer letter and job description.

Saddest part is there are really good people there that are more than capable of doing their jobs well and growing the company. Unfortunately, I can assure you it will not last as the good people will wise up & leave, settle, or be let go. 

I am looking heavily at other opportunities before it sours my resume.

National Media company where I managed Sales Managers in 4 states on sales, service, receivables, distribution, training distribution contractors, Partnerships, national and local sales accounts, SCAN sales accounts, Hotel accounts and Education accounts.  

Typical days are rare.  Multi-Tasking is mandatory.  Conference calls, meetings, analysis design, e-mails, training and coaching calls, sales and service field work, Print Site operations, Hauling, approvals, inventory, etc.  Anything that supported the management and distribution of USA TODAY and Gannett's other print products.  

Management and Supervisors are well trained with many years of experience.  They are fair and understanding.  My Supervisor has an office in Atlanta.  I work in Raleigh, NC.

Co-Workers are supportive, knowledgeable and hard working folks.   As the publishing business continues to fade and more employees get laid off, it continues to be more difficult to manage and do business in larger geographical areas with less employees.

I have always loved learning new jobs, tasks and growing with the company.  Being empowered and having the autonomy to make decisions came with my years of experience and made for an enjoyable job experience.

This is not the company that you want to work for! I was warned before I took the position, but I stupidly didn't listen. 
Gannett (or Michigan Media Solutions or Pure Play or Detroit Media Partnership or Gannett Local or whatever else they can call themselves), came late to the digital game. There are companies in the market that are doing it better. 
Training is beyond lacking and inconsistent at best. Make sure that you know your stuff before you walk through the door!
The expectations are changing daily-who to call on, which office you need to be at, how much your quota is, your territory, etc.
And management-get a clue! Some of the managers are completely unnecessary and useless. They give you advice without having any idea what they are talking about. If you don't know about the business you are supposed to know about, learn it or be quiet, and let the reps who are in it every day handle it. And be careful of the advice you are doling out, some of it should be questioned by HR. 
If I could give them any advice to make the company better:
Instill a solid training program to give the reps a good base of knowledge. Get rid of most of the managers that you have on staff. Streamline the positions and the different parts of the company so that you don't have multiple reps selling the same things to the same people under different names. Incentivize the reps with a good commission structure, one where they can make their goals, and actually make some money. Did I mention redoing the management structure?

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