International Rescue Committee reviews

management is never prepared for the number of clients we have. Headquarters assigns unnecessary trainings and seems to prefer to hire outside the company and not value moving their own employees as much. There was very little opportunity for growth unless you happened to be in a department with new funding and opening positions. high turnover rate and work is simply passed on to those who stay. The emotional trauma is real and the preparation for healthy work-life balance and boundaries is essentially non-existent. also, the nature of being a caseworker means you either sacrifice your work-life balance or you build boundaries and your clients will probably directly suffer and it will feel like you are responsible, sometimes other staff will blame you and tell you to resolve issues for clients simply since they expect a caseworker to do anything that is not required of another team member. even if it is not within your job description, and some may resent you, especially after you have been there for 6 months and start to realize you cannot keep up with the workload.

Management doesn’t care about staff. You can only succeed in the IRC if you’re white or friends with upper management. They hire interns all the time to do real work and take care of cases since they don’t want to add staff or increase existing staff salaries. Most of the money goes to the upper management salary. Clear discrimination and favoritism especially in the New York office. The headquarter is almost disconnected from the resettlement office, they don’t provide any support when an issue is brought up to them. They would just dismiss you. Getting reimbursed for anything you spend your own money on is a nightmare that sometimes I just don’t fill out that form and go through hoops to get $20 or so back. They rarely approve overtime and when you ask for it because you need to finish important work, they will bully you into thinking that you don’t know how to manage your time while in fact you need staff hired in your team to run smoothly but they give you clueless intern that you are supposed to train and have them work like a paid staff. They encourage free labor