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On May 20th a group of Slixa Staff members that made up the whole of the Customer Service and Marketing departments organized themselves and submitted a letter of grievance regarding actions taken by the company during the the first 2 months of the Covid19 crisis.
An hour after the letter was sent the members of the Staff were locked out of our work computers without notice or any meaningful dialogue. Our working relationship with the company was terminated unilaterally by the company at this point, no explaination or warning was given ...
... then or has been since.
This is our Story.
In the second week of March 2020 Slixa began to feel the effects of Covid 19. Due to the immediate loss of their revenue, no emergency back up, and loss of its traffic, Slixa, laid off almost all of the CS team, which included current and former sex workers, as well as...
...junior members of the tech team with no notice and one week’s severance Everyone who was left was asked to take a significant pay cut.
The customer service manager, an employee of the company for 8 years, in an effort to save the jobs of two senior members of the CS team, agreed to take the biggest cut.
Not only were the staff required to take a significant pay cuts, left with a skeleton crew, we were required to work more 40+ hours a week to make up for the loss of staff.
Immediately following the May 2020 Google core algorithm update Slixa decreased its rankings and suffered a further decrease in traffic. During the second week in May, Lee Ann Jennings, owner of Slixa started asking each member of the Management team, and Slixa& #39;s Project ...
...Manager to take another pay cut, while also reaffirming her request that we work more than 40+ hours a week. To the customer service manager, she gave an ultimatum: take a pay cut or lay off the two remaining members of the CS team.
At the time there was no significant change in the revenue between the first round of pay cuts and second round of pay cut requests therefore we believed there was no evidence supporting that further pay cuts were necessary.
On May 20th members of the remaining team decided to organize and advocate for ourselves, and our customers. We submitted a letter to Lee Ann Jennings as a group in hopes that our collective voice would be heard and that we could work together to move forward.
An hour after the letter was submitted, each member who had co-signed the email was locked out of their computer with no notice and no meaningful communication. Over the next few days Lee Ann Jennings sent texts to each member attempting to pinpoint the leader.
Slixa is registered as a UK company. We have through lawyers in London requested recompense. In response, we have been met with threats to our residency status, threats to our tax status, and threats to our employment status.
Throughout the whole process we have remained silent. Until now.
