KITV

Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

This station is run by bullies. The news director at the time Mike Darrah created a toxic work environment by encouraging people to tattle on one another for everything, and created an environment of distrust. This man had no clue how to be a good leader. There was rampant complaining, gossiping, bullying, cruelty, and bad mouthing - and the news director encouraged it because he called it "getting to the bottom of things." The bullies there ran the place and intimidated everyone, and got away with it because they grew up in Hawaii which made them "superior" to others. They created an atmosphere filled with fear and negativity, and it can't be emphasized enough how much tattle telling was encouraged regarding the smallest of incidents. Inappropriate language and conduct and sexual harassment were overlooked. The group of girls who worked there were the meanest of the meanest and loved to tear the newer girls down, until they recruited them to also behave like mean girls in order to fit in and continue the cycle of negativity. Again this was encouraged by the news director because he loved having his little spies out there tattling on other employees, often making stuff up and exaggerating things in the process. His spies would scour people's social media to find things to "report" about employees. It was absolutely disgusting.