No - Anonymous employee SMYAL Employee Review

1.0
Jul 12, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Not one single thing at all.

Cons

I dreaded going to work every single day. The executive director an egotistical and disrespectful human being who has no business working with young people or any organization that is meant to empower people. He is not a leader and should be ashamed of himself and the ways he has dragged SMYAL into the ground. This also makes me question the board of directors who are a group of people allowing this to continue. People have complained and raised concerns, whistle blown, shown receipts of malpractice. Still nothing. This really shows how expendable staff and inadvertently, the youth are. The priorities of this organization are motivated by money and in no way do they care about the community they are meant to serve.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

The ED supports directors who do minimal work and point fingers at staff who all work hugely without supervision. Directors blame front line staff, and ED is out of touch with the mission. SMYAL has a terrible work place culture and as queer person who is black I brought issues relating to racism to HR and to ED and eventually left because I felt there was a backlash. My division YDCE was not catered to queer people of color. A lot of the videos and things asked of people are very performative and staff have little feedback. Management operates at a high school level and the org is running into the ground.

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