Former Meow Wolf employees allege discrimination
"My initial feeling was that I hadn't been treated badly enough," former Meow Wolf employee Tara Khozein tells SFR. "But that's me—that's most women; I think that's common, but what I really adamantly believe was that 'common' doesn't make it OK."
Khozein came to SFR to discuss her experiences working for arts juggernaut Meow Wolf, where she was hired on a part-time basis as a performance content director last September. She alleges, however, that her weekly pay of $384.61 fell below Santa Fe's minimum wage requirements as she regularly worked more than 40 hours per week. Additionally, Khozein says, she emailed Meow Wolf's Vice President of Human Resources Marianne Palacios in January with concerns about racial and gender discrimination she had witnessed. In that email, Khozein claims she offered to help develop and implement better systems among staff and management, but received no reply. Instead, she lost her job in February.
"I was fired without cause. I was never given a reason," Khozein says. "And then I was immediately offered a contracted position, and so there wasn't any disinterest in continuing to work with me."
Khozein, who says she was told the decision came down from Meow Wolf CEO Vince Kadlubek, declined the contract offer. But more than being a monetary decision, Khozein says the choice to leave was mainly due to a pattern of misogyny she'd both witnessed and been informed about from other women on the staff.
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