An Absolute Dumpster Fire - Anonymous employee Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Employee Review

About 20+ out of 70+- employees have left within the last year and more are looking to leave. That is not a good look. They keep hiring more, but it doesn't fill in the giant voids that are present in the organization. This org is strongly hierarchical with any decisions (both big and small) needing multi-layers of reviews and approvals. This tends to kill the spirits of those who are naturally creative and innovative and requires staff to fit into a certain conformist mould. Many people have left due to abusive behavior by the leadership team, lack of growth opportunities, and unsustainable workloads. People have reported health issues because of the lack of proper resource management that resulted from overloaded schedules. Part of that is because instead of cutting back on the work when people leave, they expect the work to continue as-is by anyone unfortunate enough to remain. Several people were expected to do the work of 2-5 people after those on their team or other teams left. They aren't quick on the rehiring process either, so if you stay, you could be working several people's worth of work for YEARS at a time. One person left because they tricked them into applying for their own job when they went on maternity leave and when they came back, they had to accept a different one or risk being let go. That's just despicable. Too bad the UC system seem to only support management and not the employees. Their culture towards DEIA is interesting... After a very traumatizing all-staff meeting after the George Floyd and BLM events in the summer of 2020 where the Executive Director berated one of our Black female staff members after she asked a relevant question, they decided to hire an outside consultant to assist with the organization's "DEIA problems" with mandatory meetings and workshops interspersed between already-heavy workloads. It seemed to make matters worse because the true problem was never addressed: the toxic work culture that stemmed from poor leadership and management.