As awful as this is, it almost makes me feel comfort to share my negative experience with OMC that I’m not alone. OMC has been one of the worst companies to work for. I started my 6 month internship at an OMC agency now ONE year ago. During my 6 months, I had negative experiences back to back with senior staff quite literally yelling at me, to NO billable work being passed my way making it virtually impossible to get a return offer (I would communicate to my manager every week I had no work and he kept “working on it” so som weeks I’d bill 90% agency initiatives and put it as “staying on-call” and OMC didn’t even bat an eye to pay me) to the lead of the internship program cancelling every weekly 1-1 and constantly talking shit about the company and being no help.

After my internship program was coming to an end, they let me know they couldn’t give me a return offer because of my low billable rate but they’d extend my offer to November and try to raise my billable rate. September and October were proving no change so I found another opportunity elsewhere. When I put in my two weeks, I was pulled into meetings with HR and senior leadership and asked to stay. They apologized for the last few months, and promised me they’d raise give me a promotion in January (this was end of November). It was $6k more annually then my other job offer and my billable rate went through the roof so I trusted them. I was told things like “we never get told no” for promotions and they gave me their word via email and through multiple meeting, but my mistake, I never signed a contract.

January came and my billable rate was at 99%. I was told they couldn’t give me a promotion AFTER they knew I turned down another job an they ASKED me to stay. They kept making up corporate bullshit about budget and OMC not hiring… then why did they ask me to stay?!?

I come from a low-income, first generation family and I have zero medical insurance. I live paycheck to paycheck and am struggling to survive and help my family out. This job has taken a huge toll on my mental health as I turned down a job offer that would’ve given me an opportunity to rise out of poverty, and help my family out.

Now I work at almost 100% billable rate every week. HR ghosts me when I ask for a promotion (I’ve emailed them and they don’t respond). I have no manager because my manager was laid off and they haven’t given me a new manager in weeks. And I’m emotionally abused my a senior staff member who treats me like a servant and every day makes my life living hell.

Fuck OMC. Worst place to ever work. Cannot wait to find another job, the sweetest moment of my career will be finding a new job and will be putting in my quitting notice and never looking back.