Last year, the property of Condé Nast Enjoy your meal was found hit with some sort of calculation, after numerous employees of color, included Priya Krishna, Sohla El-Waylly, Rick Martinez, Gaby Melian, Molly Baz and Carla Lalli Music left their popular Try the kitchen series of videos on juvenile allegations pay compared to white peers, tokenization, credit theft and more. The scandal revealed a lot about the internal functioning and power differentials a place that often struggled to portray its employees as a group of mutually respectful colleagues, who just spent time together in the kitchen and highlighted the disparities in power and pay across the entire organization of the place.
Now another, But related, Try the kitchen is subject to a similar examination, as Vulture reports that Sruthi Pinnamaneni and PJ Vogt, senior reporter and host, respectively, for Answer them all podcast, they move away from the series after their reports on Enjoy your meal they brought to light issues similar to their Spotify ownership Gimlet Media. Specifically, Eric Eddings, former member of Gimlet and co-host of The head podcast, outlined in a Twitter thread earlier this week, of various ways Vogt and Pinnamaneni spoke Enjoy your meal through his The test kitchen Spotify miniseries, they allegedly obstructed efforts to diversify Gimlet staff, specifically during the period when company employees were pressuring to unionize. Among other things, Eddings wrote that:The stories of BA staff members deserve to be told, but for me it is detrimental that the reports and narrations come from two people who have worked actively and AGGRESSIVELY against multiple efforts to diversify Gimlet’s staff and content. ”He detailed one series of cases in which Vogt and Pinnamaneni retreated against organizational and diversification efforts.
Both of us Vogt i Pinnamaneni they have apologized in light of Eddings’ statements; while Pinnamaneni already planned to leave Answer them all after The test kitchen miniseries, has now left the show average production. Meanwhile, Vogt, who is co-host Answer them all with Alex Goldman and Emmanuel Dzotsi have stated that they will “retire” from the podcast, with Vulture reporting that his exit from the series will be “permanent.” Gimlet Media has not yet issued a statement on the departures.