"Roach"

• During a team gathering, asked a former teammate to remove his shirt & show the team his full-body tribal tattoos.

• Shortly before a team meeting, began graphically discussing her spinning class; specifically mentioned the effect the seat has on her private area, in front of the only male team member present.

• Between meetings, G00g!e Earthed a female teammate’s hometown in India. Said it looked “dirty” & “poor,” but also mentioned wanting an “authentic” cultural experience should she & her husband (👀) decide to travel there.

• Told a woman at the company N@ts game—the only other Black woman there besides myself & the servers that night—to "go sample the watermelon" at the buffet. Yes, there were indeed watermelon slices available; but out of that entire spread of food it’s *only* the watermelon that Roach recommended—specifically to the two of us. Later that evening, the woman’s young daughter turned around in her seat & stared at me wistfully. I wished I could have said something to them, but as a new employee & one of the few team members of color present for that night’s festivities, I felt my hands were tied. The other Black woman present was also a new employee.

• Roach & her husband's couple’s trip to East Asia was cancelled due to Zika fears & the pair were hoping to reroute their trip to India instead. One day, Roach updated my female Indian teammate that her couple's trip to India was a "no-go" & that she & her husband were "probably going to visit London instead" & get their “fix for Indian culture” there. Ironically, this conversation took place around C0lümbüs D@y.

• Berated my female Indian teammate’s work loudly & within earshot of the entire hallway we sit in, including clients. Other contractors outside of [REDACTED] came by to support the teammate.

• Treats certain team members markedly different than others. For example, there’s only *some* team members she openly criticizes; certain team members received welcome lunches while others did not; Roach shares *way too much* information with some team members, but is overly reserved with others, etc.

• Remarkably, around the holiday season this year, Roach went around to multiple teammates of ours loudly & repeatedly claiming to be "the Jew who loves Chr!$tm@s," which I—as a Black Jewish person—found deeply offensive & insulting.

• She sets things up to look like I’m passing off my workload to a teammate, even after the teammate in question acknowledges my contributions & the inherent challenges of managing our team's workload single-handedly.

• She aggressively followed up on a work task I’d completed the previous week. One of the people cc'd on my response regarding the issue mistakenly sent an email over the weekend about the same issue, not realizing it had already been resolved. Roach gave almost the exact same response *I* did in *her* response, making it look like I didn’t follow-up on the task. The client’s email also conveniently left out my response from the previous week:

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[12:41 PM] LB [CTR]: hi [roach], i see you just followed up with [REDACTED] re: her technical issue…

i responded to [REDACTED]’s email (sent over the weekend at 6:30 AM) last weds. with the same information

[12:42 PM] JR [CTR]: haha ok

i guess he didn’t let her know ?

[12:42 PM] LB [CTR]: she was cc’d on my response... not sure

the thread has been closed out and is in our team's "completed" folder

• She often goes through my shared folders in our team's email inboxes & follows up on tasks I’m already working on or that have already been completed. Not only does this confuse the client & make the team look disorganized, but this behavior also makes me feel that I'm not trusted to deliver a quality work product.

• Once enlisted a teammate of ours to assist in showing myself & another teammate how to pull certain metrics for a client report. Despite providing explicit, overly-detailed instructions on methodically completing the task at-hand, Roach aggressively followed up with the client in a way that made it look like having the teammate in question help us with said task was *my* idea, & not her own.

• I often pull reports from a certain software system for client review. Despite repeatedly performing the steps to obtain the reports with no complaints from the client, Roach had me walk a completely unfamiliar teammate through said task to ensure I was "performing the steps correctly." Once the report results were generated, Roach proceeded to criticize the format of the report, saying it was "not intuitive enough" for the client. Again, the client for this task *never once* complained to me or suggested the report appear in any other non-system-generated way.

• Roach sometimes organizes brief touchpoint meetings with our team specifically to criticize one of the team’s new client-side Internet coordinators. The client in question has a rather aggressive speaking tone that Roach takes very personally, openly disparaging him to our teammates before our daily standup calls. I’ve talked to the client both directly (one-on-one) & on group calls, & his tone is noticeably different with me; so far, we work well together. Any calls or email threads including both Roach & this particular client are always incredibly tense.