Toxic leaderships - Specialist DeafLEAD Employee Review

1.0
Jun 9, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing interpreters, and kind staffs

Cons

DeafLEAD claims to support mental health and crisis services like 988, but behind the scenes, the leadership does not care about staff wellbeing at all. It’s deeply hypocritical for an agency that promotes mental health awareness to create such a harmful and toxic work environment. Staff are treated like numbers. Leadership plays favorites, supporting family members and friends while pushing out those they don’t personally like. People are fired constantly without genuine reasons, and new staff are brought in every couple of months. There’s no consistency or real effort to support employees. Even worse, Tyler — the Vice President — openly badmouths staff during HR and leadership meetings. This kind of behavior from senior leadership is unprofessional, demoralizing, and makes the environment feel unsafe. If you're not part of the inner circle, you're disposable. For an agency that talks so much about supporting others' mental health, they completely fail to protect the mental health of their own team.

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5.0
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Very inclusive and compassionate co-workers and management

Cons

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3.0
May 14, 2026
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Pros

I've never felt so supported at a company. I have support from higher ups all throughout my shifts, there's great communication, and it's lovely that everyone is working toward a singular goal of helping others and keeping others safe. Working remote is also a great plus.

Cons

Being required to be on Zoom can feel micromanage-y. It becomes apparent that training is severely lacking, and you get lots of clients you're not trained to handle (e.g., individuals with severe mental disorder or dissociation). You'll always feel like you're not doing enough, especially during evaluations. Going overtime on shift is often expected with long conversations, so don't expect to always clock out on time. Conversations can be as long as 3-4 hours and easily become tiring. Even still, you will NOT have permission to end these chats despite clients not being in immediate danger. All in all, you're really not in charge of whether or not you go overtime, and you'd still "get in trouble" and be warned about your hours. And lastly, the job is severely underpaid despite the constant stress and potential abuse from clients you're undergoing.

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