The Most Polished Lie I’ve Ever Been Sold - Communications Specialist Sodexo Employee Review

Gaslighting disguised as leadership. DEI language used as decoration while disabled employees (like me) are exploited. Zero transparency. Sudden layoffs after glowing performance reviews. Management vanished. HR delivered the blow. No regard for mental health, trauma, or long-term impact. Details: I received a glowing year-end review. “Great things ahead,” they said. Twenty minutes later, I was invited to an early morning meeting. No senior leader showed up—only HR, there to inform me I was being laid off. I am autistic. I was paid well below market value. I stayed because I believed in the mission. I trusted leadership. That trust was weaponized. They talk a lot about diversity, equity, and inclusion at Sodexo. I know—I had to walk past their shiny DEI sign every day after they discarded me like trash. That sign stood in grotesque contrast to the way I and many others were treated: exploited, manipulated, then eliminated without warning under the pretense of “doing what’s best for the company.” No warning. No accountability. Just spin. Just damage. Just silence. The pain they caused isn’t hypothetical. It’s real. It’s trauma. I still live with it. And no glossy brochure or HR slogan will erase the truth: Sodexo broke people and called it strategy.