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Harassment Rampant - Specialist Save the Children US Employee Review

1.0
Feb 6, 2018
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Pros

Some dedicated staff at field level

Cons

Toxic environment with culture of harassment at every level. Narcissists are award with top positions and they become immune/protected from constructive criticism. I personally notified HR of several incidents of harassment from a top level person. They have not followed up with my reporting. This place is bad and getting worse.

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Save the Children US Response
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Please help us by letting us know where you are... we do not tolerate harassment at ANY level, and have had several communications in that regard. We want to help, but need to notify the correct people. Please reach out to me confidentially at tferrett@savechildren.org

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