The company had a great work culture where people actually cared. Not anymore.
With new management and new leaders joining, the work culture has changed - for the worse. One is expected to work 60 hours and it is supposed to be normal? When I raised this, I was asked "So you don't want to work 12 hours a day?" I wanted to (but didn't) respond, "do you expect me to?" And believe this or not, other team members are never asked this question when they raise this concern. The difference of course between them and me is obvious -I look and sound different. And I'm not alone in saying this - my colleagues have called me and mentioned that I am being discriminated against that they are uncomfortable with this behavior exhibited by leaders. They see it - the leaders on the team don't.
Projects are ill-managed and people managers are rude and will try and prove to you that you are the problem.
Rather than adapting to the company’s policy of customer love, people first etc., these managers are bringing in their horrible, typical consulting culture into the organization and upper management is doing absolutely nothing to fix it. On the contrary, they are supporting it.
Recently, a manager on my current project singled me out in a meeting, and clearly exhibited behavior that was discriminatory proving to me that he is intolerant of people from other cultural backgrounds and ethnicity. There is no doubt in my mind about what happened in that specific meeting - he was not being "rude" (as justified by my people manager), he was being something else. I was spoken to the way I was because of reasons mentioned above. Shockingly, other leaders on that call and the Teams chat messages that followed, didn’t even acknowledge that it happened, leave alone trying to fix it! This has left me distraught and I have no faith in the organization anymore.
It saddens me that Slalom says that it is tolerant and yet leaders discriminate. We call ourselves one of the best place to work. Can we add "Best place to work if you are WHITE?"
