Planned Parenthood reviews

Not even two weeks into my employment I was pulled into a meeting, under false pretenses, with my direct manager and my assistant manager. I had requested this meeting, as there was a section in my offer letter that I wanted some clarification on. Instead of discussing this, the meeting almost entirely was my manager and assistant manager telling me that I needed to consider the ‘feasibility’ of my continued employment at PPSO. I was told that I would most likely need to adjust my hours to better meet the organization's needs and account for the time zone difference. I told both individuals that I would be willing to be flexible (within reason) and that I was extremely committed to my position and work at PPSO. Following this meeting, I requested, via email, that my managers relay to me what hours they would like me to work in order to best meet the needs of PPSO. I was never given any information regarding what changes they wanted me to make. Regardless, I continued to do my work. Even after the aforementioned meeting, I was consistently praised by my lead manager both in private and in team meetings, for the quality of my work and how crucial the work I was doing was to the organization. Despite the hiccups and a few odd conversations, everything seemed to be going well. On January 10th, 2023 I had a meeting with my manager so that we could discuss some questions I had regarding a specific task I was working on. My manager clarified some information for me, once again praised the work I was doing, and thanked me for my diligence, and then we ended our meeting. 3 hours later I had another meeting with both my manager and my assistant manager; this was supposed to be one of my routine weekly check-ins. However, as soon as the meeting started my manager told me that “this isn’t working out”. They never said the word fired, they never said I was being let go, they said ‘terminated’ once in the whole meeting and just kept repeating that “this isn’t going to work out”. I asked why, if there was something I had done or a reason I was being fired. The only explanation given? “This isn’t going to work out”. My manager looked at me as I was crying and shaking and asked me if I still had the boxes my equipment came in, and proceeded to ‘think out loud’ about how they were going to get me to ship the equipment back. To the issues I raised regarding equity, all they said was, in a monotone voice, “you may not believe it right now but we are sorry”. I was told during onboarding that PPSO's retention rates were low - this is why.

Where to start? Even though the organization makes all of their new hires go through a racial equity program, racism is still very much an issue within the organization, and when it is brought to the attention of management and their racial equity team, they still refuse to be held accountable. I'm white, and I am not bilingual, but yet when I was hired, my starting rate was the exact same as the people in my department who spoke Spanish and who were constantly being pulled to translate for counselors and clinicians. When I asked how it was fair and equitable for them to be paid the same as me and yet they are also expected to take on additional responsibility I was told, "oh that's a good point, we'll look into that." by management and the racial equity team. This organization also fosters a very toxic work environment. Before the pandemic they decided to merge all of their New York location, and in doing so it put them in a very difficult financial situation. Fast forward to when the pandemic started they ended up firing over 50% of their staff (most of whom were people of color) and the remaining team members that were left behind were blatantly bitter about the whole experience. I started a year after these events, and when I brought certain attitudes to the attention of management and even HR I was told, "Well, that's just the way things are now." This also not a judgement free space the way they claim it is, I heard people ask a transgender patient who was going through hormone therapy at our facility "so are you a guy or a girl?" then after they understandably got upset later that day the receptionist said "things were so much easier when we didn't have to pretend that there was more than one gender." I heard someone in medical records reading someone's file out loud and say, "This person has had way too many abortions." These are only a only instances of why this organization is such a huge disappointment, especially for an organization that claims to be on the front lines of progressive change. Ultimately this is a money hungry business, and not a nonprofit. They claim to be providing a a equitable work environment for people of color, but really they just have new hires do a three week class so they can say, "look, we're not racist. Not here!" without actually doing anything.