During my time with the SCDAA I heard one word in particular thrown around frequently: bullying. It may seem like a harsh word but it begs to be explained. For whatever reason, overwhelming pressure or preference, the average tone of daily interaction at SCDAA is a negative one. It is no secret that there is an ever changing favorites system in place. Any one who is considered a favorite is immune to negativity for however long a time their favoritism lasts. However, those who are not in the current status of favorite are literally sitting targets for the daily storm of aggression and attitude whirling around the office. I spent very little time on the favorite list (if any). When you are a favorite, you don 't always know it, there is really
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The first is the countless lies. Lies told to the board, lies told to the CBO’s and Staff, lies we tell the public. A particularly insulting lie was the promise of a raise we were told about in late May. A raise I heard announced at convention when praising Ms. Cooper and myself for our hard work. A raise I spent six months waiting for with the guarantee that I would receive back pay from July (my one year mark). A raise that, to my dismay, never came. Although, this has never been about the money for me, it is about principle. You would have to live in the life of a staff member to understand the full gravity of deception. I can say that these lies are calculated methods for ensuring things go the way Ms. Banks prefers. She will lie about past practices, lie about the urgency of a task, lie about the orders or opinions of the Board and CBO’s. I can think of countless times where I knew Ms. Banks was feeding me false information to try to get me to do what it is she wants. Last convention she told me that light up bracelets (an expense I told her I did not agree with) were a requirement in order to abide by the CME accreditation of our program (a fact I knew to be false). She told me this in order to get me to comply against my better judgement, and order the bracelets from a company in China (again something I did not agree with and attempted to dissuade her from). The bracelets never came. It was a scam. And yet, we still received CME credits for our sessions. Interesting,
The first is the countless lies. Lies told to the board, lies told to the CBO’s and Staff, lies we tell the public. A particularly insulting lie was the promise of a raise we were told about in late May. A raise I heard announced at convention when praising Ms. Cooper and myself for our hard work. A raise I spent six months waiting for with the guarantee that I would receive back pay from July (my one year mark). A raise that, to my dismay, never came. Although, this has never been about the money for me, it is about principle. You would have to live in the life of a staff member to understand the full gravity of deception. I can say that these lies are calculated methods for ensuring things go the way Ms. Banks prefers. She will lie about past practices, lie about the urgency of a task, lie about the orders or opinions of the Board and CBO’s. I can think of countless times where I knew Ms. Banks was feeding me false information to try to get me to do what it is she wants. Last convention she told me that light up bracelets (an expense I told her I did not agree with) were a requirement in order to abide by the CME accreditation of our program (a fact I knew to be false). She told me this in order to get me to comply against my better judgement, and order the bracelets from a company in China (again something I did not agree with and attempted to dissuade her from). The bracelets never came. It was a scam. And yet, we still received CME credits for our sessions. Interesting,