The website .Mic snapped up a casual $17 million in funding this week to better inform millennials of Things That Sum Up Everything About Something and it seems like founders Jake Horowitz and Christopher Altcheck are pretty happy. Pretty unhappy, however, are the website’s employees, who say morale is worse than ever.

Despite the site’s increasing credibility—in addition to the new funding, the company fired one plagiarist and hired NPR’s Madhulika Sikka as an incoming executive editor—the writers have a lot of complaints.

In an interview with Capital New York, several employees expressed dismay with what they describe as a total disconnect between senior management and edit and, for one fired writer, between senior management and reality.

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