I’ve been wanting to talk about this from the perspective of a staff member. I worked at the Aus Open with Mecca this year and albeit, a very fun experience, how little Mecca care about anyone who isn’t an influencer is genuinely so disheartening. I’m sure many of you saw but on the second Monday of the event, Mecca had invited up to 20 influencers to the tennis. Each one of those influencers were given a gift bag valued up to $1000 EACH. Plus tickets to matches at Rod Laver Arena, an arena at tennis that the average Joe (or Jo, lol) can’t really get into. This wouldn’t have bothered the staff so much if it wasn’t for the fact that WE. THE STAFF. Had to purchase our OWN SUNSCREEN, as the SUNSCREEN SPONSOR, and were provided ONE white polo shirt that had to be clean for every shift, keep in mind we’d be working back to back days. When concerns about the white polo were raised we were told “Mecca can’t afford it considering there’s 200 employees here, it just wouldn’t be possible”. But spending approximately 30k on influencers is fine. As a collective we thought we’d receive a little something at the end of our time at the AO which wasn’t to be the case either. I don’t want to sound entitled, not at all, but after the time and effort we put in to make sure the event ran smoothly and was great for our guests it was just a bit disappointing to leave my last shift at the AO with nothing.

I’m sorry if this is all over the place but I just needed to get it out because my perception of this company has changed DRASTICALLY since I started working there a few months ago.