Reformation's CEO and president just resigned — 12 employees claim the company has a 'horrible' culture of racism that pushed out, silenced, and degraded Black employees
: "The reformation apology quite literally reads 'I'm not racist I swear I'm just a really terrible person!'"An employee who currently works at Reformation's headquarters and was in attendance for the all-company meeting on Monday described it as "disjointed" and "disappointing.
"The foundation at Reformation is rotted in prejudice and poor leadership. I cannot imagine it getting better as long as they want to only blame Yael's 'shortcomings as a person,'" she wrote. "Accountability goes for everyone who plays a role in the mistreatment of others. Employers need to take real responsibility for how they affect not only the livelihood but also the spirit of their employees.
The divide only grew starker once they started their roles and discovered their new workplace was a "dark, dingy, roach-infested" basement, according to one former employee who requested anonymity. Above the basement, a gleaming storefront was staffed almost exclusively by white employees, the former employee said.
"Yael the CEO literally once banged her head on the ladder and stairs going up through the pass-through," Phin said."It's not possible for her to say she didn't know about the conditions we were in. She knew it was dangerous." According to five former employees, in the summer months in the New York flagship, employees found ways to construct their own fans and create a breeze. In the winter, they worked in down parkas, as a thermometer at the top of the stairs regularly clocked the temperature at 20 degrees.
When the stockroom employees at the New York flagship, who made $14 an hour, heard they were making as much as $4 an hour less than their white front-of-house counterparts, they decided to raise their concern with their managers.
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