Great Mission - Controller Youth Collaboratory Employee Review

Fun and rewarding work environment. People-centered

Best for people who enjoy a highly remote work environment

- Great hourly pay, atleast in my position. - Many positions with YC are remote so you are able to work with them anywhere, in and out of America. - Large room to do multiple things if you want to, it's rare to be forced to box yourself in to one thing at the organization. If you want to do data one day and write an article the next they will most likely accommodate you.

- The internal culture doesn't match up to what they claim to support. - The pay rate seems really good at first until you are signed on to a long-term project if the funder is RHYTTAC. For example, I was asked to participate in a project that saw me working for over six months straight on something I only received a few hundred dollars in compensation for and was initially told could be done with a few hours here or there but took much more time than previously discussed. When I voiced my grievance that I had essentially been lied to on what the projects scope would need and that I felt my naivety with pay structures had been taken advantage of as It wasn't until much later that someone else confirmed I agreed to a critically low pay for work completed I delt with soft gaslighting, basically being told that while the pay was low it was equitable given that that's what they paid everyone (it should go without saying that lowballing everyone is not ethical equitability). - There is an 'every man for himself' complex common within YC's workforce. The chance someone will speak up for you or in agreeance or allyship even when you are clearly being mistreated or something out of order has occurred is little to none. If anything, even if a conflict you are dealing with can literally be referenced in the work YC does as something valid to be upset about or need rectification, you will still behind closed doors be looked at as a trouble maker in the workplace. While I cannot confirm that being passed up for projects due to being seen as a trouble maker happened for sure, that seemed to be what my colleagues in YC thought was happening as they would notice when bringing up grievances that thereafter they seemed to be picked less for work. - I found antiBlackness to be the biggest internal problem with YC. Whether it was the parent organization RHYTTAC being uncomfortable with any projects that touched on the plight of Black people as they were afraid it would rock the boat meanwhile greenlighting projects that did so for nonBlack people of color, or the hiring and refusal to reprimand staff who made inappropriate racist comments (for instance, saying white supremacy isn't that bad) that leads with those who make their uncomfort with the environment of mistreatment clear being reprimanded, the org was thoroughly drenched in an antiBlackness that time and time again nothing could be done about no matter how hard those who saw these issues tried.