An employee opinion survey is going round, here’s the stuff I can’t write there because I don’t trust them.
I’m sick and tired of seeing so many promotional videos this year saying this is an inclusive business. It isn’t.
One video said we celebrate all cultural events. We don’t.
And now we’ve somehow managed to win an award for diversity, must have been bought.
Must be over 50 senior managers in this place, none of them black. In a city like Birmingham, that’s a disgrace.
A few Asian, less than five but their numbers are reducing. Had an Asian FD, massively respected and was pushed out by new leadership, no reason given. Another Asian senior person, founder of a diversity network, mysteriously left at short notice this year too. More long serving asian managers left this month.
Look around this place, plenty of BAME at lower levels, they just don’t get promoted and I wonder why. We turn up everyday, bang out targets targets targets, that’s all we’re good for, being talked down to and never listened to.
Advice to management
You’re so out of touch, it’s unbelievable. All white Exec and nearly all white senior managers, in a city as diverse as Birmingham.
You have these diversity networks but then do nothing with them, exec don’t get involved. You have these targets for senior representation but getting an external brown board member doesn’t count, he will have nothing to do with running the everyday business and how senior people run this place. You might think you can show it off as proof as diversity, it isn’t.
You are out of touch and while we slave away on targets, told to come in often for team meetings, the CEO spends two summers working from Italy. It’s a joke.
New leadership came in banging on about transformation and edge. It’s worse than it’s ever been and these guys don’t care. Don’t fall for the mutual stuff, they really don’t care and to think we look after NHS which is probably one of the most diverse organisations in UK, it really is a joke.
Lots of people have left, I’ll be joining them soon. The only thing management will care about is that the diversity stats look worse, without actually asking why. Take a look at yourselves would be a start.
