CORE Response Reviews

Toxic work environment. Leadership hired and promoted individuals with little-or-no experience while passing over candidates with 5+ years experience in public health programming and project implementation as well as formal education (specifically a Master of Public Health degree). Management also manipulated COVID emergency funding and policies, specifically having me help develop the framework for a new unit/department while offering to have me lead it, though they then ignored my calls and emails for weeks as they had already filled the manager position for the role rather than keep their word and hire internally. They also strung along bilingual associates/managers with the promises of a raise for over 6 months before claiming "HR is not approving these raises for the foreseeable future." In the time I served as manager, my associates were officially on "full-time, temporary" contracts with the threat of losing their employment at the whim of the organization, emergent public health policy, and the state's right-to-work legislation.

TOXIC WORK CULTURE, barely any organizational support/systems/structure/processes, little follow through from basic operational departments, rampant cronyism, inequity, financial mismanagement, embarrassing lawsuits, embarrassing behavior from managers/senior leadership, morally challenged leadership, little employee training/development (you'll get thrown in the deep end,) and simply horrible decisions that trickle from the top... As an organization, CORE is obsessed with the optics of looking like they're doing good rather than actually doing good and supporting the field staff on the front lines working with communities. Its savior complex trumps any potential they may have had and it has been a heartbreak to witness.