The saga continues. Our office lost another employee—a coordinator. The one from the program I look up to. He led with soul. There was nobody better at what he did. He had a strong relationship with all of his participants. This is a huge loss. It is the youth in his program that suffers. We are trying to do philanthropy, and head office is trying to do big business.
We hadn’t had a Youth Manager since February. There was an incident between his participants that they used to pull the trigger. He had to navigate that alone. On Monday, he aired his feelings on how Head Office has been handling things and treating us. They reframed that as a violation of their Safe Workplace Policy. They retaliated. Now the rest of us are feeling like we aren’t in a safe environment where we are allowed to express how we feel or make a mistake.
We have a new Youth Manager, and he just started yesterday. He is not impressed. He tried to fight for him because what had transpired was reconcilable. He isn’t stupid; he knows there was another reason for their decision. They retaliated.
This was the incident. In his group, while he was running a program, one boy pantsed another in front of a girl. The boy saved face for the rest of that evening but cried when he got home. His mother advocated for him. That was handled to the best of the coordinator’s ability, but Head Office wasn’t satisfied. He was held to a policy manual that nobody has ever seen in their lives. It is not his fault that he didn’t know what the policies were. That he didn’t have a Supervisor to help him handle it. They don’t train us.
Now we are all sick to our stomachs. Head office is sick. They are disease. The nonprofit has no soul. They threw him out like he was trash.
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