Something needs to change - Accounting/Finance LANDR Employee Review

- They don’t care about diversity as much as they advertize - It is harder for minorities to get promotions or raises - Employee retention plan is not effective and inexistent - Everybody leaves due to exhaustion or because they are being treated unfairly For a long time, I believed that the company could achieve so much more to celebrate diversity, as promised when I interviewed for the job. That is the reason why I stayed for so long. Following the death of George Floyd, I tried to make the company aware that they should be responsive to what was happening all over the world but was told ‘’This is not our cause’’ and that they had been advised not to take any actions. In the contrary they asked the employees to figure something out for themselves but that management wouldn’t initiate anything. Mind you, this is a company that has build a large portion of it’s business from Black music. I also made HR aware that micro aggressions were happening all the time in the company but I was always dismissed. I was also told that people from management couldn’t comprehend why the Black lives matter movement crossed over in Canada and that they believed that ''ALL lives matter" so why just focus on the black people. As ignorant as this statement was, I was still hopeful that management would educate themselves on the matter and come up with a plan to show their clients and employees that they really did care about the situation. I wish that they would acknowledge the existence of racism in Canada, and especially the existence of systemic racism or plain racism at LANDR (that even management takes part in). I suggested that the least the company could do would be to organize a mandatory sensitivity training to all levels of the company. Once again, I was dismissed and I was told that this initiative should come from the employees and not from management. As a company that is so tightly involved with the music industry I think that this is unacceptable given the fact that black people have contributed so much to music. I consistently had to justify my work and my value to the company whenever I asked for a raise. Meanwhile around me, many people would get raises with little to no effort. When I spoke up about it to my direct manager, I always got some excuses without much substance to explain why. I had to spend about two months tracking my everyday tasks to justify a raise, while working extra hours