Former Mixer employee calls out management for alleged racism MixerA former Mixer employee has described his time working for the streaming platform as \u201cthe worst I\u2019ve ever had professionally and it\u2019s all due to RACISM.\u201d On June 21 Milan Lee, who formerly worked in business development for Mixer and its parent company Microsoft, posted a Twitlonger detailing the alleged racism he experienced while working for the streaming platform. Lee shared four different examples of what he went through when working for Mixer, claiming that \u201cone of the main people calling the shots has zero respect for any partner nor their platform.\u201d \u201cI was one of the only black people working at Mixer during my tenure. While at a conference I was pulled aside and told that the only reason I was hired is because I am \u201cstreet smart,\u201d Lee asserted. \u201cThe first thing that popped into my head at the time was affirmative action. I believed I was only hired to meet a diversity goal because I was black. Anyways I decided to brush it off and let it go.\u201d The \u201cstreet smart\u201d comment only seemed to be the tip of the iceberg, as Lee went on to claim that a manager had used an analogy literally comparing partners on the platform to \u201cslaves\u201d. \u201cMy manager decided to give us an analogy, that analogy was \u2018I\u2019m in between a rock and a hard place. What I mean is all the partners are my slaves, I own their content. I control their success on our platform. For me I am the slave master, I own partners\u2019,\u201d Lee wrote. \u201cImmediately I got angry, pissed off, and honestly I didn\u2019t want to work at Microsoft\/Mixer anymore.\u201d Taking up the issue with other management didn\u2019t seem to solve the problem at all, Lee alleged, and it was their inaction on the issue that eventually drove him to leave the company completely. \u201cI reported my entire experience to a skip level manager, I also included examples when my ideas in meetings were passed on. When said ideas were the exact same from my white colleagues,\u201d Lee claimed. \u201cThe skip level NEVER reported any of the slavery comments to HR. So when I spoke with HR they were surprised and said this has never been communicated. After that meeting, I resigned a few weeks later.\u201d For the record, it\u2019s NOT @Solice She is a great person and would never do this \u2014 Milly (@MilanKLee) June 21, 2020 Finally, Lee reported the manager who had allegedly made the slave comments to higher-ups, who assured him an investigation would get to the bottom of things, but the mind-bending response he said he received wasn\u2019t what he had been hoping for. \u201cI spoke with the legal team to start an investigation with my manager. This investigation would continue even though I decided to terminate my employment. Months go by without a verdict. One day late last year I get a call from the legal team with their final findings. That finding was not guilty!\u201d Lee claimed. \u201cThe reason my manager was not penalized and the reason she still has her job today is because she CANNOT be racist. The reason she CANNOT be racist is because she hired a black person.\u201d Mixer has yet to respond to Lee\u2019s allegations at the time of writing this article, but we will keep this page updated with any news or response that comes next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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