Alfred doesn't care about you - Anonymous employee Alfred Music Employee Review

1.0
3 May 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Get to work for internationally know company. In the music biz. Lots of very cool people to work with. Flex time.

Cons

Severe nepotism. Owner keeps his friends in upper management roles and gets literally angry if anyone else tries to get a leg up. You're supposed to feel honored because you're allowed to work there and never expect real money no matter how hard you work or how much you cover for his incompetent friends. Quality of products in some areas sank when management stopped acquiring new authors and simply reprinted the same books with the same title. And guess who was the author of those books...the owner and his friends. So the only ones benefiting were them. No raises for 5 years. They gave you ice cream on summer Fridays and thought that was enough. Some areas of the company are okay but the owner doesn't care about anyone. Client, employee, musician, nobody.

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Alfred Music Response
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We respect when one cares enough to write. It is disturbing to read this perception that the company "doesn't care about you" as Caring is one of Alfred Music's five core values: We care about and support each other and our customers above all else. The company would not respond to posts if it didn't care. We would not have several recognition programs and cultural perks if it weren't for both caring and business passion. Additionally, we would not bother to do our best to reward and appropriately pay talent if company leadership didn't sincerely care. It is unfortunate that you had the experience written about here. We do care.

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