You may have been offered work with this company. They're constantly recruiting, and on the outside it all looks fun and even a bit like a new family.
But on the inside, this is certainly one of the weirdest media-buyer companies to work for, and if you're a client, potentially weirder to entrust with work, and I do not mean this in a good way, even if sometimes you get your way and they manage to sell you the dream, it comes at the cost of a dozen broken backs.
Their business model is straightforward but far from ethical: Cram in as many poor unassuming writers, graphic designers, SEO experts and video editors from third world countries at bargain-basement rates, in as short a period of time as possible, juice their souls on a slippery slide of endless emotional whoop-whoop and then pull the plug on them just as - (after endless sleepless nights) - they decide this new-fangled lifestyle isn't worth pursuing for all the free hugs in the world. Maybe they even think of jumping out of a high-rise window. Maybe they do. Maybe they even punch their grandma in the tits. This company is bad for the world in a general way, even if companies like the cheap rates they offer.
The vibe that initially sucks you in...
Unfortunately this is about as far as it goes. When you're part of their "international work force" you're really just a sardine in a packed sardine can who gets privileged with the few jokes and memes passed down in the work forum from the inner circle/virtual water-cooler. Sooner rather than later you realize all the dark humor comes from a burnt-out workforce that earns virtually a fifth of what they're actually worth who rationalize this by thinking they're loved, and as soon as they're too tired to type another key, BOOM! KAZAAHM. MWAAAHAHAHA! The end. You're the yesterday's vermin. Coming at you from a clearly left-wing outfit like Dingus and Zazzy where "zim" and "zer" pronouns are the order of the day this smacks of considerable hypocrisy. I didn't know unethical Canadians existed before I worked for them, but apparently unethical humans exist everywhere. * Cue the canadian farmers leaving the stage in disappointment.
Dingus and Zazzy pass on the discount of hiring "cheap ass-beavers" (as they call them privately) to their clients and have been able to present incredible profit margins to their angel investors. "How do you do it?"is a question they were once frequently asked on podcasts, in local newspapers and even by Bloomberg once, while they were still making a buzz. Yes. This company. This crazy outfit! At one stage, they were all over the news. Their reputation has caught up with them though and crazy isn't the word! Their PR team got their name into every local news website, podcast and reddit thread they could find and got lucky with Bloomberg as a psychopathic twist of fate.. The only trouble is that what they present to the world is something other than what they are; an apparently company with no scruples and no sustainable future. People are losing their minds.
Dingus and Zazzy are not at all knowledgeable about half of what they do.
They don't allow reasonable deadlines for many of their projects,. They're senseless on this point. And instead of quality, they rinse a can-do attitude through the company pipeline to push these projects through any way they can, using - as I mentioned previously - a poor labor force abroad as financial leverage. Those who know what they're doing get overloaded like the Egyptian slaves in work in domains they aren't necessarily skilled in. Those who do get compliments from the client get a kick in the back by the managers later on. It's almost guaranteed. They're not looking for good workers. These guys are looking for good replies to water-cooler jokes. It's a mad, messy hodge-podge of frenetic activity that they re-frame as hair-on-fire hilarity, but at the end of the day, there's zero competency at the top, and there's a management team who are just interested in making new sales. There's no proper oversight or delegation; it's like an irish version of Wolf o' the Wall-street but with an uncharasmatic leader like Herman Kane; in other words, someone hideously out of touch. A man made of toxic positivity dressed up in presidential garb . Selling to the gullible in other words. Plastic office parties with cheap golden cups and crappy hats and the works... Needless to say, the lifeblood of the company aren't the CEO (Jonathan Sturgeon) or Head of Operations (Becca Kay) either; They're the countless worker ants who get funneled in and exterminated in the laughing-gas chamber within a month or two after they're too burnt out from depraved laughter to continue working.
Dressed up in space suits and flying planes held together with scotch tape for their endless PR stunts(I'm not kidding), the company is best symbolized by spacemen with clown hairdos and non-airworthy planes flown by drunken clowns, and.... well just generally hype without substance; and one day, it seems certain by now, they'll crash.
Buzz phrases and hip lingo can only get you so far. The varnish is beginning to fade, companies are starting to see through these wooden sales gimmicks, the old plane is rusting and even after up-voting themselves on places like Glassdoor, Google Reviews and countless other review platforms, Dingus and Zazzy are starting to slip in the rankings, even in their home town. Their presence in the media has all but stalled. They've gone from nothing to Bloomberg and from Bloomberg into the garbage can.
Their performance is fading too, as is their humor as they themselves begin to shrivel and fade like a clown with too many nasty meth binges. The negative Glassdoor reviews continue to pile up and internal strife outweighs the pros of raised salaries. Nobody, no how desperate, wants to work for a cagey operation that exploits the 3rd world to bring depraved humor to the world. The world is a small place, and as it turns out, people don't like being milked for all they're worth for work created by meth clowns. They're also running out of people to do the milking for them.
Dingus and Zazzy are gaining a bad, unethical and disingenuous reputation by any measure, and they have almost zero sense of social responsibility.
In the final analysis, it's not funny, and it's actually dangerous to peoples' health.
