manager

director

producer

coordinator

intern

NBCUniversal

Great Team, But Underpaid

I have been fortunate enough to work with an incredibly talented and dedicated team at my current position. From day one, I have felt welcomed and supported by my colleagues, who have consistently displayed a high level of professionalism and expertise in their respective fields. Our team has successfully collaborated on numerous projects, consistently delivering exceptional results. 

The camaraderie among us is truly commendable. We foster an environment of open communication, where ideas and opinions are valued. Whether it's brainstorming sessions or problem-solving meetings, everyone actively contributes their insights and expertise, making sure that we collectively reach the best decisions. Our team's ability to work cohesively and efficiently together is undoubtedly its greatest strength. 

Furthermore, the level of collaboration extends beyond our immediate team, as we often collaborate with other departments. The cooperative nature of our organization facilitates seamless coordination and ensures that projects run smoothly from end to end. This collective effort is an invaluable asset, as we benefit from diverse perspectives and expertise, allowing us to tackle complex challenges with ease.

However, despite the positive aspects of working with such a fantastic team, it is disheartening to acknowledge the issue of being underpaid. Considering the high caliber of talent and hard work displayed by each team member, the compensation does not reflect the value we bring to the organization. This discrepancy in pay not only demoralizes us but also jeopardizes our long-term motivation and engagement.

As professionals dedicated to our careers and committed to delivering excellence, it is essential that we feel adequately recognized and rewarded for our contributions. Competitive compensation not only demonstrates that our organization values our skills and expertise but also helps to attract and retain top talent. By offering fair salaries that align with the market rates and the expertise of our team, the organization can ensure that it sustains a highly motivated and engaged workforce.

In conclusion, I am incredibly grateful to be a part of such an exceptional team. Their professionalism, expertise, and commitment have made my work experience highly enjoyable and rewarding. However, it is crucial for the organization to acknowledge the issue of underpayment and take the necessary steps to address it. By rectifying this issue, the organization can truly unleash the team's full potential, leading to even greater achievements in the future.

Let's start with the good: It's a nice building with some genuinely good people and plenty of exciting work to go around. That's about where it stops.  The dispersion of workload and job responsibilities between teams is a long standing problem never addressed. Productive, proactive members of the team are rewarded with picking up the slack for their not as productive counterparts. Some members of the team in charge of delegating such responsibilities are able to, for example, read books, browsing multiple sites, or even play computer games, while others work right up until the deadlines getting several tasks completed for shows. There is no accountability, upper management allows this absolute unilateral and flawed system to persist no matter how many workers leave. Wide-eyed newcomers may volunteer for many tasks hoping to prove themselves and growth within the company. Instead of supporting these people who improve work culture and morale, management wears them down gradually. They subject them to sporadic and unsustainable scheduling to cover the various job tasks they volunteer for, they will not pay them a wage worthy of the work they perform for the company, they will allow less proactive team members to pawn their responsibilities off on them, and worse of all, they will be blamed slip in productivity or mistakes. No one wants to address the real problem: the unsupportive work culture. And poor work life balance. 

To summarize plainly: good work ethic is punished here. Being a willing and proactive employee should be praised anywhere. Here they will smile, encourage, and allow you to do as many tasks as you want, but they will take advantage of you. Once you realize you are being taken advantage of, they will pressure you in everyway they believe they can. When you feel like you are being treated differently than other workers, it's because you are. They will only strong arm those they believe they can.

If you choose to work here (Lord, help you) set your boundaries from the beginning, do only what your paid for, and always have an exit strategy. 

Lots of expectations and lack of respect from management. If you do not have a bachelors you will not be moving up from an entry level position. I had a really hard time with this because so many individuals had so many gifts and things to contribute to the company but were not selected because of their level of education. Working in Florida its difficult to know what weather conditions will be like for the day so it's quite stressful working outside and doing your job in the rain. I feel management treats basic employees as if they are peasants. While i know the culture of Universal is not for me, it use to be before Comcast took over. I am extremely proud to have been a part of such a growing company. However, when studio apartments are now going for nearly $1400 a month in Orlando... The majority of the employees cannot afford to live appropriately on $12 an hour. Meanwhile, the company has made 5.7 Billion dollars profit and most employees can't afford to eat or feed their children. To full time employees, which is a nearly impossible position to obtain in my department the benefits are extraordinary. They gave away stock for christmas gifts a few years ago. Which i think is thoughtful. However, there are many individuals becoming leads that are very hungry for a higher position that micro manage and like to be in complete control. This makes days at work very uncomfortable. It's important when you work here to always be positive and make the most of the opportunity to meet all kinds of new people. You can go to work and meet someone from Russia on holiday with their family, or someone from the UK. That's what makes this job fun, the guests.

A typical day at work consisted of delivering mail and packages throughout the 22 floors of NBC NY Headquarters by handing mail and packages with care and responsibility when delivering,such as certified, registered, and parcels including being time manageable when making collections of outgoing mail and packages, including letters, parcels, and inter-office pieces by receiving hand-written signatures, including date and time on printed-out manifest sheets for record-keeping when delivering packages including preparing inter-office pieces to be processed for outgoing inter-departmental pouches within the headquarters facility outside of NY where I maintained a clean, safe environment by getting mail and packages screened through an x-ray scanning system and keeping a well-preserved, organized work area. I learned how to work as a team player by being able to get along well with my co-workers. The management team was very lenient byallowing me to be able to take care of my personal byusiness matters when needed, such as leaving earlier than scheduled ending time of shift when needing to attend an appointmnet for medical matters. The workplace culture was very diverse and equal because it gave employees an opportunity to gain experience that they may have or not have had in the past before they had worked there. The hardest part of the job was having to be able to maintain good record of keeping track of deliveries that were processed manually into an arrival system that were delivered with receiving hand signatures for clients. The most enjoyable part of the job was being able to keep myself active by it helping my work day go by quickly.

I've worked here 11 years and the culture has gotten progressively worse. In my department I feel that bad behavior is rewarded and good employees are not recognized. I stay here because of my benefits and seniority but the management has gotten less inclusive of those who are not executives. Coordinators/assistants in my department are treated like servants and ignored until they want you to do something. I am happy with one of my bosses but the other person I work for gives continually gives me busy work. She is not very busy but she attempts to push me when I've already taken on a great share of the work for the department. I have taken on more and more and this has been recognized by giving me more to do and giving the other assistants less to do. I am a rule follower and the other coordinators seem to take advantage of those rules and are busier finding ways not to do their jobs. In the meantime I have taken on re-writing the entire training manual for the coordinators/assistants and record every deal that comes in and out of this department. I also take work home when needed and don't ask to be paid when I work at home. One of my bosses recognizes the work I do and the other boss tries to pressure me to do more when I am already going above and beyond and doing work beyond my paygrade. The boss who has pressured me is pushing me right out the door. I don't sleep well at night and my stomach is in knots most days at work and in anticipation of what she will ask me to do when the other assistants usually have much less work on their plates and socialize for a great deal of their day. I can barely leave my desk during work . I didn't want to leave here but I feel like I don't have much choice anymore even though I am very good at my job and enjoy the work that I do, minus the unneeded pressure from my other boss.

Worked as a freelance Production Coordinator for a small show under the UTAS arm of NBC Universal. NBC had no business making the show we were making, and it showed. The entire show was mismanaged from the beginning, executives being constantly added and removed at random based on any given day's mishaps. The producer team constantly expanding while production remained absolutely strangled, struggling with a shocking lack of staff.

The budget was inflated and somehow also extremely limited at the same time - money and resources being thrown at all the wrong things while those of us bleeding for the show were horrifically undercompensated and constantly treated as if we were underperforming. When we asked for help, asked for staff or resources or an increase in pay that still wouldn't come close to what our work was worth, we were told the show was bleeding money and could not afford to pay us or help us in any way. 

Then we would see an executive demand a first class flight to a shoot they didn't even need to attend, or talent be given a random multi-thousand-dollar stipend just to get them to sign on. It wasn't that they didn't have money -- it was that none of it was meant for us. The peons keeping the entire show from collapsing in on itself.

Not all NBC shows are this way, but I would wager this was FAR from the only one. Especially under UTAS. The workplace culture was extremely toxic and morale was lower than dirt. Everyone hated it, but in the year 2024, we all felt we had to be grateful to be working at all. 

I am so grateful to have wrapped that show and moved on. I do NOT recommend working here, but I know that saying that means nothing, because we all will jump at any chance we can take to move our careers even an inch forward... no matter how we are treated in the process.

Wishing you luck. 

As an associate producer for a daytime TV show, your main job is to find stories or "bookings" for the television show you work for. That means connecting with various guests and people all over the world to bring them on your show. Fun, right? Yes and no. I enjoyed working in a creative environment where you produce one of the most beloved forms of media in the world: television. Ding. If you enjoy conceptualizing, pitching, and telling stories to fit a specific audience or brand (and yes, some part of you will have to at least like the brand or type of show you're working for to be successful at your job), then working as an AP (or typically booker), especially in daytime TV, may just be the career for you. In terms of skillset, this is great work for a resourceful person (i.e. reporter/journalist) who can find anyone and anything for a potential television segment. You also have to be good at getting people to confide in you and trust you as much of your work entails delving into the lives of others to broadcast them as characters on TV. Sound a lil shady? You betcha, it is. That's the secret but also the magic of how talk shows are produced. 


As for things I hated about my job: The shady work environment/management; relentless competition between co-workers; insanely long and unstable hours -- producing is not a job where you are ever really "off" the clock. This is work that can easily follow you home; questionable ethics in the workplace.

All things said in this review pertain to this specific position. 

This job, at its best, is just okay. 

Work-life balance is non-existent. I work six days a week when my job description said "some weekends". I wouldn't mind the six day weeks if my position actually required it. My boss told us that we work on the weekend to "save face"; to look good for our executive producer who has no idea how our department runs or what we actually do.

Compensation is perfect if this was the 1980's. Compensation is not based off of performance, but job title. Production assistant=very poor pay. Sorry Navient, but I don't make enough to pay those loans. Benefits are average. Vision, Dental, and health insurance (all things I have to pay for).

Job security and Advancement seem to be average. Spend 1-2 years in a position and then you advance. However, there is so much turnover that people may not get the chance to advance.

Management is my single biggest gripe about this job and I guarantee that I'm not the only person who thinks so. My direct boss is incompetent when it comes to working with others. He expects you to be a mind reader and he changes the way the department operates (almost) daily. He never believes anything we (the PA's) say, but what's worse is that our suggestions are never heard until it blows back in his face. By that time though, its too late and all the PA's fault. To be honest, he doesn't even know how his own department works.

Besides some cliques, job culture is pretty good. Company outings are fun and plentiful; enough to keep the discontent here for however long they're needed. Long story short, come for the stories but "set-up shop", always be ready to move on. Your sanity is not worth it, my friend.

As a freelance writer, I have been able to explore subjects in depth and work with different type of editors (health, business/money and parenting.) It is fascinating to meet and work with so many well-informed, thoughtful and successful editors and writers.

NBC news (and other major news organizations, such as Thompson Reuters and MSN) has provided a visible platform for my work. My stories have been reprinted in other major media outlets, including Huffington Post and WPIX nightly news.

I have a proven ability to find and write a compelling story, a critical component to being a productive freelance writer. I have been fortunate that this has afforded me the opportunity direct my energy toward interesting and fulfilling assignments.

Because of the temporary nature of freelancing, however, I consider it a satisfying but short-term means to my end goal, which is to be a staff writer at a creative/editorial organization.

I worked for two departments while at NBC, Commercial Operations which is now Sales Operations and aster Control. When I worked in Commercial Operations I loved everything about my job and my co-workers. I went on maternity leave (which is 16 weeks by the way) The two top women in our dept (the vp and regional manager) who happened to be Hispanic and black were fired after 17 and 21 years due to departmental changes. They brought in some new managers who were inexperienced and much cheaper who did not know our department. Needless to say, a few months later the fired another female manager of 46 years and replaced her with a male who had been with the company for 9 years. Morale got very low so I left and went across the bridge to the Master Control department. This department was going through new management protocols and had a history of previous managers leaving because they were being passed up for vp positions from newcomers. The master Control operators were newer on the sports side and management did not really help with sops. Mistakes or errors were blamed on whoever the manager was not favorable with. The technical managers/Supervisors were pretty nice but played favorites with people they were cool with or their roommates.  The entertainment master control operators seemed miserable because they hated their shifts. Overall as a sports operator I was pretty happy as long as I was live. The training process is terrible and can leave your career stagnant. Welp, that’s all I got.

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