According to her complaint, Anderson was hired in August 2019 to help market Amazon Music’s live events, and for the first four months, her manager discriminated against her by excluding her from meetings, rejecting her ideas and limiting her responsibility for a new hire she’d expected to oversee. Anderson said she complained multiple times to human resources and Amazon Music executives and was eventually given a new supervisor, but in March 2020, her budget was slashed and she was forced to work under other Black employees as part of a scheme to push her out.
Anderson claimed that over the next several months, she continued to be excluded from meetings, her work was limited to administrative tasks and she was asked to help a white employee on a project even though he was a lower-ranked worker. In September 2020, Anderson was placed on a PIP with unrealistic deadlines based on minor infractions, but six weeks later, the plan was suddenly rescinded, according to the complaint.
In April 2021, an anonymous colleague told Anderson there was a scheme to get rid of her because she’d been labeled a problem employee after complaining about her former manager, Anderson said. According to the complaint, Anderson wasn’t sure who to trust, and shortly after she was told she’d be getting another new manager, Anderson spoke to the anonymous colleague again and decided to resign in January 2022.
