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Working for both teams has its pros and cons.  The people you work with are awesome and will become some of your best friends. There is great opportunity to do well and make great money, but only if the Pelicans are doing well.  When the team slips, work will become stressful and difficult, and management will not care for any excuses and will let people go regardless.  The top executives micromanage even the lowest employees on the totem poll, and bend their managers into yes-men who will not stick up for the people underneath them. You also better not leave when the work day is over as the executives expect you to arrive early and stay late. This is the absolute worst it will get, but you have freedom to work how you please as long as your numbers are there, and the day-to-day is usually pretty lax, except when on the higher-ups wakes up and decides they are angry about something.  The culture is slowly improving, as the team catches up to a modern workplace.  I am confident that rating for working here will go up, and everyone's experiences will be different depending on the department they are in.

I played one year for the New Orleans Saints, and the start of a normal day included position meetings with your coach. We watch film and discuss potential ways to be better.  We then transition to team meetings, then health treatment, then on to the field for practice. Management was decent, the NFL is a business and unlike college you are only allowed to retain 53 players on a roster. If you don't make the cut, then you are literally cut from the team. Workplace culture varies from relaxed to hostile on the field. Physical and mental stress can be very high so you have to learn how to balance yourself. The hardest part of the job is whe you get deep into the season and your body starts to ache. You must find a way to pull through, to keep your position and earn your contract. The most enjoyable part of the job is the fan base. People make the game fun.

We would show up at 3:30 every home game and start our meeting by going over everyone's duty that night. We entertained the fans by interacting with them, making animal balloons, running with the flag, play basketball outside with the kids pre-game, promoting items, getting fans to come on court on timeouts to play games for a chance to win amazing prizes. The management is great and fun to work with. Co-workers are always great and full of energy. The hardest part of the job was having to leave! I enjoyed everything about this job.

The sales department treats you like absolute garbage. They overwork you and make you feel bad about the work you do. Unless you are liked by the SVP or VP, do not expect to move up in the organization. They pick favorites, nothing is based on merit. The only positive is you get compensated well, but you do work for two teams….
If you have other offers, take them… until the leadership turns over, this place will not be a good environment. 

This was one of the best work experiences I ever had in my life. I loved most aspects of my job. The main issue I had from this position was the management team in this department. It was clear they had favorites and were not necessarily fair to the other members of the GNS team. To those who are applying for this job, please do not let this review prevent you from applying. I still enjoyed this position and I would do it all over again if I could. 

I've seen some improvement in how the organization is being run but it still is not an amazing place to work by any means if culture is your most important value. If you want to put your head down, work hard, and use this as a stepping stone to something greater then this is the place for you.

Management was very helpful with free time workers. Explained the instructions clearly and gave step by step plan to execute the rush of fans. Other workers were friendly. Hardest part of the job was the waves of fans that came to order the same food and constantly running out of cooked food.

The experience was overall great experience. I was not too fond of the management at the time, but I understood my place in the pecking order. I would love to work for another NBA franchise because of my experience with the Pelicans. 

Morning reports. day over day changes.
Morning meetings
Developing workflows for other employees
Answering data requests from other employees
Creating SQL queries for database
Weekly/monthly progress reports
one off analysis requests

Working for the New Orleans Saints is a great job to have if you like working in NFL and working very long hours with even lower pay although you happen to forget about those things when your team wins.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Mascot 3 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour
Inside sales representative 3 salaries reported	$11.00 per hour
Head coach 1 salary reported	$8.63 per hour

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