Pros
None. Disgusting. I hate myself and my own existence for haven given even one nanosecond of my precious limited human lifespan to this place. I wake up in the night with guilt nightmares, so I'm trying to make it right by speaking up now.
Cons
This state institution isn't real. It's a decoy to make the tax paying public feel ever so slightly safer for its existence, but it ultimately saves the employers' side just like everything else in the world right now. You think if you rightfully report discrimination from your day job that they're here to help you? NO. They're here to craft the illusion that the state is on the side of citizens, but it's not. Just like anyone else in this world, it can be (and IT IS) completely bought, and even though you, the taxpayer, provided every single pair of freaking socks and underwear, every house, every car, every cavity filling, every hospital bill for childbirth for everyone in this office, it means NOTHING. This keeps me up at night and it keeps Tums and Pepto Bismol in business by myself alone, and everyone is going to know. As with every state/ government entity, it's deliberately understaffed and underfunded, because its mission might actually help citizens and we CAN'T HAVE THAT, AMIRITE. When a case manager/ investigator gets an added case to their already-existing 20,000 to look into, of course it's physically impossible to be thorough, and this is the point. 99 times out of 100, it's an economically disadvantaged, wrongfully terminated, broke-because-now-they-are-on-unemployment taxpayer who has a valid complaint about being fired because of their mere existence, or their audacity to report their blatantly obvious discrimination. This happens all the time, all day every day, and this is part of why the DHR is understaffed- there's not a team in existence who could fully and properly address everything, and ensure the needed justice in the end. Those Top Mob Bosses in the DHR who benefit from the crooked discriminatory employer payoffs will never let it function how it should- why would they???? Here's how it works, ultimately: Poor Marginalized Citizen is grossly discriminated against, and they tell their truths via our cute little online complaint form, which is basically a Baby's Binky. Complaint is received, read, and at some point responded to. DHR reaches out to the accused employer, telling them they need to submit a response defending themselves. Of course all employers ALWAYS have more money and an entire legal team at their fingertips, so their response has some sort of official letterhead and legal team seal on it, even when the argument is laughably weak and complete obvious lies when you compare it to the complainant's side. Basically whoever has the "fanciest lawyer response" wins- and it's never the broke citizen. After the Fancy Lawyer Reply is received, the complainant is then told to read it and send a rebuttal. If the citizen doesn't have their own Fancy Legal Team and Letterhead, they are not taken as seriously, and neither is their argument, even if the finer details they provide support their bigger story. So it's ultimately classist favoritism, where the Richest Person Wins. And if the lone citizen does have a decent argument but no lawyer, then the employer may decide to pay off the stretched-too-thin investigator, just to close the case. The investigator takes it of course, because they are also just a Tiny Cog who feels powerless and just wants to move on to the next thing they'll never fit into their schedule. The investigator must meanwhile at least pretend to be investigating- calling the complainant for quick questioning and for the record, and taking months and months of cricket sounds in between being heard from (because again- every individual has an insanely impossible number of cases at any one time). In the end, the citizen is dismissed with a, "no probable cause", because the employer/ perpetrator has more funds to pay folks off- both their own lawyers, and the state.
