POC's don't Stand a Chance! - Anonymous employee Trusted Health Employee Review

You start off at Trusted like you would at any company; excited, hopeful and eager to contribute. Over time, you realize that what you were shown was nothing more than smoke and mirrors. I can say with 100% honesty that the other reviews on this page are lived experiences and told from a place of frustration and wanting to spare others from experiencing the same thing. Trusted is not a safe place for POC. They have hired us but have also succeeded in keeping us in a silo so it feels impossible to move up. Trusted has hired POC but only as a way of ticking off the diversity box on their list. In no way, shape or form are they inclusive or inviting to anything or anyone different than the leaders in charge. Speaking from personal experience, management has absolutely no training or the emotional intelligence to understand what it means to have diverse team members and how to create an inclusive environment for ALL and not just a select few. I experienced discrimination at the hands of a leader there. The worst part was that this leader claimed that they didn't realize that they were even being discriminatory, that that wasn't their intention. It doesn't matter what the intention is, what matters is the perception of the person on the receiving end. I am still working through the workplace trauma and PTSD that I sustained while there as a result of those experiences. The leaders at Trusted are not culturally sensitive to anything that doesn't directly correlate to their experiences. They don't do a good job of creating safe spaces for POC to unapologetically be themselves which leads to them feeling ostracized. Trusted has the opportunity and resources to do better. They simply choose not to.