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Working in media still & reading all of these posts about what people of colour experience, I will share this: I did work at CBC, and for the most part, I did have a good experience. Then it came to a SUDDEN halt after a new hire, and my time at CBC turned into a nightmare. 1/9
A new Senior Producer would literally outright lie (it was shocking), throw us under the bus, I got treated badly behind closed doors (the person's neck would break out in some kind of rash when doing it), shut down most of my pitches when I followed certain stories for CBC. 2/9
All of this X DAILY. Very quickly, I started to feel suffocated, and anxiety and fear in the workplace. Even tho I didn't know all the details about my colleagues (Indigenous journalists) experiences, I later learned about our commonalities. 3/9
Many times I witnessed colleagues trying to address it with a network manager but only to end up in tears and more frustration. Honestly, I didn't know what to do half the time. I was never treated this badly before in a workplace. 4/9
Every day I was just trying to feel a sense of dignity On top of that, I just wanted to work hard and give every story my 100%. While I was hurting in the workplace, I was working independently on several MMIWG investigations. I just remember everything feeling so lonely. 5/9
Usually my contract would get renewed, I felt happy about that. The end of my contract was coming up, and the HR dept emailed the SP several times to renew it while cc'ing me. My contract never got renewed. It was like I never existed. 6/9
I didn't expect anything different from the SP, sure. But to know mgt was aware of the hell that was going on downstairs with many Indigenous journalists raising our hands up pleading for something, it didn't matter. I didn't matter. We didn't matter. 7/9
Instead, only more resources got handed to the SP, and pretty much all senior Indigenous journalists with years of experience got tossed. (The SP didn't like seasoned reporters!). That was my ending at CBC. 8/9
Honestly, I felt hurt by CBC. I worked hard for them, I believed in them. But in the end, it didn't matter. That was my take away. With all of these diversity policies in place, are they truly working? There are many threads on Twitter to say negative. 9/9
