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Maggie · 12/04/07 11:10AM

We hear that Viacom contractors will be informed today that their paltry five days of vacation time have been cut—to zero. Rumor has it other perks are also on the chopping block. Maybe the Viacom dining hall's automated massage chairs will now be off-limits to lowly contract workers. Tell us more, please!

More Reasons Why You Shouldn't Work At Bauer, As If You Were Going To

Doree Shafrir · 07/17/07 04:10PM

Last week, we dissected a litany of reasons why working at Bauer kind of sucks, although since then we've heard from various employees who wanted to clarify that it's actually just the corporate suits at Bauer that suck, and that most of the rank and file are actually pretty cool and fun to work with. Okay, done! (Though that's usually how it is, we would think.) Then someone emailed us about a Bauer magazine we didn't even know existed, and we learned that sometimes people exist to just make your job difficult. It's true!