Iris Derke

A Promoter of Poverty - they promise growth and deliver none Because they are in the arts they act like they don't have money. This is a for-profit company and the upper management will act like they don't make well over a base six figures a year. They will ignore any requests for a raise and gaslight you, saying you should be grateful to make $30,000/year (which is below the base liveable wage for NYC). They keep commission a secret, so compensation for the amount of work done is highly skewed and some members make close to six figures (or more) while working an average of 4-5 hours a day. Members of the directorial team have been known to freak out over non-issues and use profanity against the staff, as well as act incredibly inappropriately toward female staff members. There is also no HR (the "HR" is a family member who is there maybe 2 months of the year), so this sort of thing goes unreported.