let me tell you the story of how I worked for 40k at a start-up mental health organization in TORONTO for a 40 hour/wk. dismissed whenever I asked for a "living wage" for my upcoming contract. laid-off for there not being "enough work" to keep me on /1

being shamed and berated for refusing to commute 1.5 hours to a CLOSED non-essential workplace, then recently heard that they are planning to hire someone for the SAME job at a "moderate" wage this coming fall. /2

how is it that yt-led organizations will weaponize the words "reputational risk" and yet not think about the consequences of mistreating their BIPOC staff as a potential risk to their business?

I made multiple attempts to make this workplace a safer space for employees /3

I pushed for Anti-oppressive training addressing specific workplace microaggressions, never credited btw. I pushed for comfortable chairs and standing mats as employees were facing workplace related aches/pains and was told "it doesn't align with the aesthetic" /4

I was hired under the guise of supporting the founder as a partner in managing the social enterprise and was repeatedly dismissed and micromanaged for every aspects of my role: social media, product purchases, store aesthetic, business decisions. /5

when out of frustration I handed off social media back to the founder (it was impossible to post without having each post vetted and sometimes entirely replaced by her), I was told other board members were critical of me not doing "a part of my role" /6

I will never forgot her tearfully yelling at me through zoom telling me I abandoned the workplace and wasn't doing my "job" which was "making people buy things" during the pandemic. I will never forget her telling me I was choosing my "health before the organization" /7

I will never forget silencing myself as she literally berated me as a professional and made me out to be an incompetent employee. I will never forget her telling me she "needed an innovative team" as if we just weren't cutting it. /8

I will never forget that the next day she has the audacity to ask me "how I felt" about the convo the day before (re: her yelling and crying at me) and then get annoyed when I said "I don't want to talk about it" as if it was my doing to undo. /9

I will never forget the way in which my concerns were weaponized against me after I put in great effort to improve the organization. and then thrown out like trash to bring in someone new because of what the founder likes to refer to politely as "tensions" /10