This is a YouTube video titled "How I Fixed MY Toxic Culture ⚠️" containing a conversation involving Mike Andes and another speaker discussing workplace discrimination, peer reviews, and organizational culture challenges. The dialogue reveals personal reflections on bias, leadership, and efforts to improve company culture, recorded in June 2025.
They think he discriminates.
Yeah. 1000% example.
Give me an example. Straight up example. When I hired.
Gio, Gio is African-American.
There was a huge.
Spiel by guys.
That if this was in.
Luke's control, he would have never hired him, that it was based off his color. Even the guys, when I got here like day two or three, they were like, Luke put you in a position of power with those tattoos.
And I was like, I mean-- See.
To me that's proving to them that it's like, I have a preference about tattoos, you know? Just like a preference that you don't let your hair, you know, look all like bed hair ever. You know, I have a preference, but.
I'm not gonna.
Micromanage that.
So I did this originally. My business was like 1.4, 1.6 at the time. We were still going up and we weren't making money. And so I had anonymous peer reviews. They all did peer.
Reviews on each.
Other and I was included on it. Who said they'd do that? We took all the reviews. I had a whole page of all the negative stuff. And I spent three hours with my operations person going through every single one. And that was painful. I was crying. It was emotional. I knew there was a lot of things in my past that I was allowing to surface up from family, religion, et cetera. And ultimately, if that purpose statement doesn't require someone to look a certain way, act a certain way, be a certain way, I don't care. It will take a level of humility that is currently not in the organization. And that starts at the top.
