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Ellen DeGeneres Show Ex-Employees Allege Toxic Work Culture

“If [Ellen] wants to have her own show and have her name on the show title, she needs to be more involved to see what's going on,” one former employee said.
Ellen DeGeneres has built her worldwide, multimillion-dollar brand on the motto “be kind,” with lavish giveaways and acts of charity. But behind the scenes, current and former employees on her leading daytime show say they faced racism, fear, and intimidation.

“That ‘be kind’ bullshyt only happens when the cameras are on. It’s all for show,” one former employee told BuzzFeed News. “I know they give money to people and help them out, but it’s for show.”

A Black woman who used to work on The Ellen DeGeneres Show told BuzzFeed News she experienced racist comments, actions, and “microaggressions” during her year and a half as an employee. She said when she was hired, a senior-level producer told her and another Black employee, “Oh wow, you both have box braids; I hope we don’t get you confused.” And at a work party, she said, one of the main writers told her, “I’m sorry, I only know the names of the white people who work here,” and other coworkers “awkwardly laughed it off” instead of coming to her defense.

When the former employee brought up issues of race and representation on the show and asked producers not to use offensive terms like “spirit animal” in segments, her colleagues called her “the PC police.”

When she started to speak up about the discrimination, she said, all of her colleagues distanced themselves from her.

“Whenever I brought up an issue to my white male boss, he would bring up some random story about some random Black friend that he had and how they managed to get over stuff,” she said. “He would use his Black friend as some way to say, ‘I understand your struggle.’ But it was all performative bullshyt.”

After one year at Ellen, she said she asked for a raise after learning another recent hire made double for doing the same job, despite her having worked in the television industry for a decade. Her manager told her “they’d see what they could do,” but months went by and nothing happened, she said.

The former employee said she was also called into a meeting with executive producer Ed Glavin, where she was reprimanded for her objections to the term “spirit animal,” asking for a raise, and suggesting employees on the show receive diversity and inclusion training.

“He said that I was walking around looking resentful and angry,” she said.

After the meeting, she left work for the day and never returned to The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She said she has no plans to ever work in the entertainment industry again. For years, she felt “a fear of speaking out” but is now inspired to share her experience because of recent conversations about race in Hollywood and other workplaces.

“I feel like I’m not alone in this,” she said. “We all feel this. We’ve been feeling this way, but I’ve been too afraid to say anything because everyone knows what happens when you say something as a Black person. You’re blacklisted.”

The former employee also said her manager from Ellen recently reached out to her amid the Black Lives Matter protests to apologize for not being a better ally. But the former employee said it's too little, too late.
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I'm not gonna defend Ellen. Fostering or ignoring that type of toxic work environment is terrible, especially in this climate when you know it's gonna come out and you will take the L.

And let's not forget there are a lot of people in LBGT/liberal world who have turned on Ellen. She has kinda become the Al Sharpton of gay people. You get in trouble for saying wild shyt about gay people, you go on her show to apologize, she gives you dap and tells some jokes...and your debt has been forgiven. They don't like that. They also don't like her embracing George W Bush and becoming a-political, outside of being anti-Trump. She's doing everything to be as inoffensive as possible, focusing entirely on making normal white people feel content/happy while raking in that advertisement money.
 
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I've been saying it for a minute now... All these Hollywood celebrities who cosigned Leaving Neverland are just throwing stones to hide their hands.
 
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Piff Perkins said:
I'm not gonna defend Ellen. Fostering or ignoring that type of toxic work environment is terrible, especially in this climate when you know it's gonna come out and you will take the L.

And let's not forget there are a lot of people in LBGT/liberal world who have turned on Ellen. She has kinda become the Al Sharpton of gay people. You get in trouble for saying wild shyt about gay people, you go on her show to apologize, she gives you dap and tells some jokes...and your debt has been forgiven. They don't like that. They also don't like her embracing George W Bush and becoming a-political, outside of being anti-Trump. She's doing everything to be as inoffensive as possible, focusing entirely on making normal white people feel content/happy while raking in that advertisement money.
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Well she certainly failed MISERABLY at that:mjlol:
 
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