ETR Reviews

Working at ETR was the most traumatizing work experience I have ever had. I reported unethical behavior my department Director was engaged in, to the CEO and HR, only to be gaslit and have no follow-through in holding the Director accountable. Many female employees, including myself, worked with male counterparts who received credit for the work we produced. There is an employee that everyone (from leadership to entry-level employees) knows as being unqualified and incompetent but is related to a senior leader, so he has been able to advance within the organization. This type of nepotism has become normalized at ETR by HR poorly justifying it through weak policies describing ETR as "A family-friendly place to work." I sincerely believed the CEO when she told me that she cared about women of color. The majority of individuals who have left due to the toxic work culture at ETR are women, and the majority are women of color. The CEO continues to blame the "great covid resignation" for these departures rather than addressing the abusive dynamics at every level of the organization. Please think again if you are considering this very performative organization!

The leadership team isn't interested in equitable practices or anti-racism, they just like to say they are. They sweep gross misconduct from leadership under the rug until the only people left are those benefiting from the lack of accountability or integrity. It's odd that they recruit new staff who are passionate about social justice and dismantling systems of oppression and when those staff call out injustice, they are maligned and left with no choice but to shut up or leave. There is little to no support for staff who produce work that actually fulfills our mission, not to mention, maintains our funding. I've seen time and time again women, especially women of color, propping up incompetent men who make more money than they do. Staff are dropping like flies, not because of the pandemic (which is the excuse our CEO has provided) but because they learned ETR isn't the place we all were made to believe it was.