I'm just a guy with a family and I just want to be happy.
My wife and I are both looking for new jobs. She had a breakdown at her high level med exec job and refused to continue. She found out that she was being paid 10.5k less than her female counterpart – who is under her and who doesn't do even close to a good job and is basically the golden child of one of the other execs. My wife is Hispanic and really believes that the toxicity she encountered in her role was a result of her ethnicity and her age. She was constantly ignored, placed out of the projects, side stepped, and given everybody else's work. She was working 70+ hours a week doing all of the other executive work and fixing all the issues.
The company is filled with only white people and absolutely can't keep minorities on their staff to save their life.
They've had three black female employees in the past several years and all of them quit citing uncomfortability and racial tensions. One of the black women that were hired recently just left because the company wouldn't give her a management position even though she has an MBA and instead made her a “team lead” – after she interviewed for a management position. She was willing to work up to the management role but decided to leave citing the same racially homogenous culture issues as the others.
I just don't fucking understand why this system is predicated on life or death when so much of it is out of your control.