Although the mission of the CEO, Gerald Chertavian is admirable, he does nothing to hold his executives and leadership accountable. He allows them to take advantage of the employees, staff members and interns who dedicate their time to giving 100% for this organization.
The employee turnover rate is horrendous. This company lacks proper leadership and the atmosphere and practices of it's leadership has proven to be quite discriminatory, hypocritical and sabotaging in the face of its mission.
The executives that are in place do not model the mission of this non-profit organization. After working here for quite some time it has become obvious that most of the leadership lack the proper experience to lead a team and is only there for a title. They lack loyalty, they never take responsibility and accountability for their actions, thus their team members usually suffers the consequences of their lack of knowledge, unprofessional behavior and ignorance.
There is no room for growth here, any conversations pertaining to promotion and or raises go ignored and unanswered and if by some chance one does receive an answer, it never ends up in favor of the employee who dedicates their time to upholding the mission of closing the opportunity divide.
Unfortunately for the participants, they are being led by a group of people who lack common decency, professionalism and proper work place decorum. The rules, guidelines and core values they set for the participants, while honorable, are not modeled by the staff members and leadership.
I use to promote this program by telling everyone I came across about the benefits of such a program, (for potential employees as well as participants) unfortunately this program has been an utter disappointment and now I refuse to send anyone into such a organization which wholeheartedly embodies disorganization and un-professionalism. Year Up New York (as well as many of their other sites) is a sinking ship.
