Future reviews

No one has much faith in the judgment of senior management. The company has declared bankruptcy at least once and has subsequently undergone some major bloodletting, in particular eliminating a host of magazines and employees in the process. There had always been big concerns among the rank-and-file that the company was trying to "grow, grow, grow" at all costs -- and those fears were ultimately founded. Cool people, great benefits -- just don't plan on being secure for the long haul.

The workload is crushing. Not that hard work is a bad thing, but the amount of output that management demands from each employee at Future US dulls creativity and quality. In point of fact, "quality" is not something that management cares about all that much. The general attitude that the Future US management has towards its readership is that readers are basically sheep that want -- or even need -- to be snowed by flashy, shallow coverage of trends and "shiny things." As a result, most Future US properties have become formulaic -- which is actually okay for the workers, since they're working so hard that they don't have the time or the mental energy to think of anything original.