A Few Bad Apples Spoil the Bunch
Pros
Worked with a lot of genuinely passionate, intelligent and forward thinking women, but none of them had any real say in what the company was doing. Being around beautiful jewelry all the time is cool. You get a birthday credit and a gift at Christmas, plus a steep discount year round (though still overinflated from the item's cost for most items).
Cons
Overt racism from white women who've worked there forever. I'm not even talking about low key racism (ie. making sure your black employees are not in promotion tracks and are in lower paid positions, which is also true here!) I'm talking about hearing the phrase "all black people are lazy" VERBATIM. MULTIPLE TIMES. IN CONVERSATIONS THAT WERE NOT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE OR EVEN WORK ETHIC IN GENERAL. MULTIPLE TIMES EVEN AFTER I DIRECTLY SAID I DID NOT AGREE WITH THE STATEMENT. I watched one black woman get fired for doing something the white women in this company do on a regular basis with impunity. I've watched black women get write ups and warnings because a white woman cried. There were multiple stretches of time where we had no HR person at all. The things I overheard and the things that were said directly to me were nothing short of appalling. There is no excuse for this.
