PCORI Reviews

PCORI has a problem with paying Black people the same as white people. PCORI has a problem with promoting Black people. PCORI had external consultants come in and ask Black women if they felt they were being treated fairly then did nothing with the information collected.

By and large, colleagues really weren’t nice and pleasant to work with. For me personally, I had to interface with a belittling and all around disastrous wannabe manager (though this person was not in fact my manager). I stressed my concerns to higher ups and HR but not much of anything was done. Within my division, petty behavior was rampant. Early on, a number of officers were upset that they were lower on the totem pole compared to the (younger than them) associate director (who i should note is very much qualified for the AD job). The heated conversations and petty arguments with one another became old quickly. It shouldn’t be hard for adults to leave their egos at the door. Reauthorization concerns were a constant. While I think PCORI will get reauthorized, I imagine the organization’s work and mandate will change substantially. I don’t envision staff that are still with the organization being happy about it. PCORI is still very much a scrappy unknown organization. From where I sat, I never had a sense of efficacy with my work, nor could I meaningfully convey to lay people why PCORI’s work was important.