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This was taken down shortly after posting, I assume because there were some pronouns included that made it possible to identify who committed the fraud, theft and abuse described below. I’ve removed the pronouns and all identifying descriptions so that only people familiar with the criminality described would have anything hinting at who is responsible. I was back and forth on reposting this, but after talking to a number of friends and mentors, the point that’s been driven home for me is that the abuse and wildly unprofessional behavior and practices protected here will only be forced onto new people with myself, and the others who spoke against said abuses, out of the way. The C-Suite is aware of the situation, I have written proof of this. Which leads me to believe they are complicit in protecting the behavior. The review, taken down several months ago, which has now had identifying features removed, is as follows: ------------------------ I originally wrote this when I was “let go.” I decided against publishing it, because as I say in the "pros" section, there are people here who I really respect, and I do believe in what they're doing. I want them to succeed. I changed my mind recently, however, when I was refused a recommendation because I was being held accountable by my former coworker for a bad review here that someone else wrote. So, if I'm going to suffer the consequences of it regardless of whether I speak up or not, I may as well do it. If the truth can destroy something, it should. The review: I can only assume the theft and fraud I'm going to speak of was common before I arrived, because I outright refused to take part in it when my manager told me to take customer testimonials from our biggest affiliate partner, Chalene Johnson (this is the name of the company), edit them to make it look like Viome was responsible for the results her customers got from her products, and then send it out to a bought list of hundreds of thousands of emails to sell Viome. The campaign I refused to commit fraud and theft on was the last email campaign I ever touched at that company before being removed from that role altogether. I saw it either as my manager just didn't know what they were doing, or this individual was consciously stealing and lying their way through her career. Between those two, I thought I'd be generous and assume they just didn't know what they were doing - but at any hint of suggesting there was something this person wasn't an expert at would set them off. It was a pretty impossible situation - working under someone who was so ignorant as to believe that theft and fraud weren't just legal, but ethically acceptable, and still performing while restrained by the confines of their ignorant/amatuer assumptions and guesses. I don't know if these things happened before I joined, and how rampant they may have been, but as long as I was there I refused and ensured it didn't happen, with the precedent for fraud and theft set. I can't speak for what's happened since I was laid off - which I know from speaking to former higher level managers is just how they hide firing people. Fast forward a few months and there was a significant shift in how I was treated, with 3 other people witnessing it, and at least one other person I am aware of personally experiencing it. My manager completely ignored me, for over a month. Wouldn't respond to emails or Slack messages - wouldn't respond to me when I asked something on conference calls or had a question or concern I'd bring up in meetings. Meanwhile, I was left just completely winging it to build out deliverables, with no expectations set, and no communications. At the worst, when there was at least a minimal level of communication back from my manager, I was given vague outlines of "we need X deliverable tonight," for projects that would take 16-20 hours to complete. I would be given the assignment the middle of the day it was due, and would just stay from morning until 10pm at night working to perform the necessary research, and then execute on what that research revealed. I'd send it to my manager, then getting home and collapsing into bed, I'd get another email from them saying to scrap all of it and do something completely different instead, because it fit their intuition better - flying in the face of all empirical evidence and measured research and metrics. So, I'd do that. I was working around 115 hours a week in the office while that was going on. This all happening with the backdrop of knowing this manager was so clueless to the subject they were in charge of to not even know that their instructions at times were criminal, and I had to carefully walk around that as to not set them off again. The most infuriating instance of this happening, though, was when they stood next to me and took credit for my proposal, and work, from the CEO, Naveen, and actually shushed me when I went to speak up. Eventually I broke down and went to HR about this, specifically about the fraud and theft issues, but I also mentioned the stolen proposal and abusive personal behavior. I was effectively told "I'm sure artists everywhere are thankful for you standing up for them to prevent 'theft'," as if I wasn't reporting marketing fraud and intellectual property theft - gaslighting me. The HR person I spoke with explained away the abusive behavior saying that "(name) is probably intimidated by you, with everything you know." I was just stunned into silence. The next week I reached out to talk again and brought out everything, including screenshots of Slack conversations where I made a last ditch effort deal with my manager to allow me to build a new deliverable based on the evidence and metrics I had collected, offering to pay for everything myself. My manager agreed, and I built it, adding on to the 115 hours a week I was working. I needed a tracking code from my manager to apply to what I had built to actually collect metrics to prove what I had been working on. They ignored me. I sent that screenshot along to HR too. The second time, with all of this, explicitly going into the behavior and legal concerns I had (because I did and do care about the mission of the company), and just because I thought it was ethically disgusting, I "think" I got through to HR. By this point my department had a new manager, and my old manager had moved over to being in charge of a different company function. The week after I had gone to HR a second time, my new manager and the HR rep brought me into a small room by themselves to sit and "talk." They told me how "they learned about some of my experiences that could be very damaging to the company" and wanted to know if I was willing to stay or not - but before I could answer that, they changed subjects into a story from my original manager about how I was supposedly making violent threats to coworkers and management. They shifted the entire conversion to forcing me to not discuss my concerns about theft, fraud and abuse, to defending myself from baseless accusations of threatening my coworkers. At the same point, I noticed my old manager actively avoiding me. Despite everything that had happened up until this point I still was trying to believe they had good intentions, and was as respectful and kind as ever. It went from just the avoidance of me and silent treatment on company communications, to actively stopping in their tracks at one side of the hallway when they saw me coming, turning around, and circling around the entire building to get to the other side where the commons area and elevators were. (Note: all the rooms had glass walls in this building so you could see clear across the building from anywhere on the floor) The only thing I can assume was that HR either told them about me coming forward, or they connected the dots with HR's line of questioning (assuming there was one) and was acting out in retaliation against me. This was around February in the Bellevue office. Mid-end of February I caught Covid-19 and was bedridden for the next 3 or so months. When I came to, the behavior was generally the same, granted there was less reason to have to speak being in different departments now. But when I went into the office to get my things, anticipating moving to a new building, everyone being friendly (and just human) with me, except for my original manager who just stared directly at the ground entirely unresponsive to me smiling and saying "hi" was pretty off-putting. Once I got home with my property, again, expecting to take it in to the new office when we were cleared from the Covid lockdown, I looked through my folders to find some of my own personal reference material - the folder was empty. This was years of my own personal, professional documentation and reference material, all gone. I had these documents inside of my swipe-file folder, which was inside of my desk, in a locked office. Someone stole all of it - someone with access to that office which was behind multiple locked doors. It wasn’t long after that I saw what easily could have been from my templates used on their website. It’s possible that the one other person with expertise in this area was finally allowed to do their job, working to their real ability, but the timing is too close for me to think it was anything short of my stolen property, taken right out of my desk while I was bedridden, unsure if I’d survive 3+ months of Covid, being used without my consent. It was the end of that week I was laid off. But it doesn't end there. On the call where I was "laid off" I was told about severance pay, insurance, etc. When it came time for my severance pay to come through according to what I was told on that call, however... nothing. I reached out to HR and was told I didn't receive anything because I never signed off on the documentation that was emailed to me. I never received any emails, and I did keyword searches in my inbox for the domain it would have been sent from, and nothing except the material I was given when I was first signing up. That's when I realized they had to have sent it to the email address they locked me out of when I was laid off. This last point I really can't say if it was deliberate or not, but it was wildly unprofessional and had real consequences. Anyways, that's my experience working here. There are real goals and visions here that could help people. But there is unequivocally an element in this company which belongs in prison. And there is a significant number of people willing to overlook the criminal behavior and abuse that happens here.
Cons
Please read the above in the "pros" section.