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Inside the Washington Football Team's Workplace Culture

ESPN Daily

ESPN

Sports

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Washington Football Team’s offseason has been anything but quiet. In July, the team changed its name after years of public protests. And in the past couple weeks, a series of exposés in the Washington Post have highlighted the team’s workplace culture, which a number of current and former female employees have alleged is rife with sexism and harassment. Jeremy Schaap interviewed four of these women this week, and brings us their stories of working for an organization that they say was openly hostile to the women employed there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Day one going to the park, you're kind of told certain things.

0:09.0

Unwritten rules of working for the team.

0:13.0

If Dan Snyder is walking towards you, walk the other way.

0:17.0

You don't look at Mr. Snyder in the eyes.

0:20.0

You never call him Dan.

0:22.8

Was the worst environment I've ever worked at for women?

0:26.9

He's 100% responsible.

0:30.6

He should be owning all of this behavior that happened there because it's his team. In the two decades that Dan Snyder has owned the Washington football team, the failures on the field have been well documented.

0:53.3

But behind the scenes, a much more disturbing story has allegedly the failures on the field have been well documented.

1:00.2

But behind the scenes, a much more disturbing story has allegedly played out with a toxic workplace culture that, according to former employees, was plagued by harassment and fear.

1:07.3

Today, ESPN's Jeremy Schaft brings us the stories of four women who work for the team and who are now speaking out about an organization that they say tolerated sexism and harassment towards its female employees. I'm Pablo Tori. It's Thursday, September 3rd. This is ESPN Day.

1:30.4

Jeremy Schap, thank you for joining me on ESPN Daily.

1:33.8

My pleasure, Pablo.

1:35.3

So I wanted to talk to you today about a team that's been in the news a lot lately,

1:40.2

and not for the reasons anyone might actually want to be in the news.

1:46.1

The Washington football team,

1:51.9

which dropped their previous name this summer after years of public protests, is now facing new allegations regarding the culture within the team's front office. So how would you describe

1:57.2

what's been reported about this team in recent weeks? Well, these are devastating exposés that we've seen in the Washington Post, two of them

2:07.4

specifically. The first one, which was published in July, allegations from 15 women who had

2:15.2

worked in the organization about sexual harassment in the workplace,

2:19.3

mistreatment, all kinds of egregious behavior.

2:24.3

And then in the wake of that initial report, the post reporters who had broken that story,

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