(WAHHH) Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem Interviews with diversity managers and internal data obtained by Recode indicate that Black Amazon employees are promoted less frequently and are rated more harshly than non-Black peers.

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(WAHHH) Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem Interviews with diversity managers and internal data obtained by Recode indicate that Black Amazon employees are promoted less frequently and are rated more harshly than non-Black peers. (www.vox.com)

(Jason Del Rey / Vox)

@delrey: Internal data & interviews w/ diversity employees indicate Black Amazon employees are promoted less often & rated harsher than non-Black peers. Amazon disputed the data in the piece but wouldn't provide alternative info. @jordanweyenberg: “Earns Trust” is an absolute disaster and always has been. Catch-all for “we just don't really like you” and if it was used against me I can only imagine how it impacts folks already so disadvantaged, but I literally never worked with any Black colleague consistently in 4.5 years @jguynn: Amazon's race problem: Black staffers promoted less frequently, rated more harshly, @DelRey reports Oh, and a white male manager told a Black female employee, unprompted, that his ancestors “owned slaves but I'm pretty sure they were good to their slaves.”

(Jason Del Rey / Vox) @delrey: Internal data & interviews w/ diversity employees indicate Black Amazon employees are promoted less often & rated harsher than non-Black peers. Amazon disputed the data in the piece but wouldn't provide alternative info. @jordanweyenberg: “Earns Trust” is an absolute disaster and always has been. Catch-all for “we just don't really like you” and if it was used against me I can only imagine how it impacts folks already so disadvantaged, but I literally never worked with any Black colleague consistently in 4.5 years @jguynn: Amazon's race problem: Black staffers promoted less frequently, rated more harshly, @DelRey reports Oh, and a white male manager told a Black female employee, unprompted, that his ancestors “owned slaves but I'm pretty sure they were good to their slaves.”

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Chanin Kelly-Rae, diversity and inclusion leader for a department in Amazon Web Services. What AWS says they want (linkedin.com). I can't help but think she just couldn't deliver.

Her consultancy site is full of fluff with a blog (chaninkellyrae.com) that's contributes as much to human knowledge as could be expected.

Chanin. Is it prounounced 'Cha-nin' (cha like in cha-cha) or is it a mangled form of 'Shannon'?

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