The funny thing is, all of this drama and cope and bullshit basically came out of Racial Reckoning 2020. And mainly from the management and executive levels rather than line staff (of course). The actual work being done is incredible. I mean, I should know, I've worked here for 23 years and was a volunteer 6 years before that. Our line staff are amazing people who are helping people with huge challenges (cancer, HIV, isolated seniors, people losing housing, etc.). It's just that RR20 brought out the worst in some folks who have hypnotic voices. It's depressing how right you are when you describe it as a "self-made hell on earth" because it is definitely that sometimes. But the actual work being done, and my own work in training volunteers who have nothing to do with (and have no interest in) the woke bullshit, is basically amazing. I keep holding on because I hope that we will eventually get back to that place of nonjudgmental, empathetic community - that was also tons of fun - that we were before pandemic and before BLM protests. But now we're a place where I have to repeatedly take down definitions of "white supremacist behaviors" before the volunteer trainings I run - posters that anonymously get put up on various walls - so that volunteers don't get the wrong impression of my very non-woke trainings that are basically about being empathetic and open-minded. Ugh!
Your company truly sounds like a self-made hell on earth. I'm surprised it still exists with all that toxic dysfunction.
Steve, here's a patient for you.
The funny thing is, all of this drama and cope and bullshit basically came out of Racial Reckoning 2020. And mainly from the management and executive levels rather than line staff (of course). The actual work being done is incredible. I mean, I should know, I've worked here for 23 years and was a volunteer 6 years before that. Our line staff are amazing people who are helping people with huge challenges (cancer, HIV, isolated seniors, people losing housing, etc.). It's just that RR20 brought out the worst in some folks who have hypnotic voices. It's depressing how right you are when you describe it as a "self-made hell on earth" because it is definitely that sometimes. But the actual work being done, and my own work in training volunteers who have nothing to do with (and have no interest in) the woke bullshit, is basically amazing. I keep holding on because I hope that we will eventually get back to that place of nonjudgmental, empathetic community - that was also tons of fun - that we were before pandemic and before BLM protests. But now we're a place where I have to repeatedly take down definitions of "white supremacist behaviors" before the volunteer trainings I run - posters that anonymously get put up on various walls - so that volunteers don't get the wrong impression of my very non-woke trainings that are basically about being empathetic and open-minded. Ugh!