The Collier Companies is one of the bigger apprentice accommodation companies and administering in Gainesville, amenable for accouterment bags of UF acceptance with a safe home and hundreds added with a abiding job.
Yet, association and advisers akin feel they’ve been let down, ignored, acclimated and betrayed.
During the Summer and Fall semesters, association of Collier apartments accept brought assurance apropos to advanced offices, witnessed consecutive problems with no actual solutions, dealt with ascent hire prices and protested the company’s accommodation to adios tenants accepting added income.
Specifically, Collier-owned Gainesville Place Apartments, amid at 2800 SW 35th Place, was the area of added than 250 calls to Gainesville Police Department aural a nine ages amount in 2021. Instances included abduction and kidnapping, attempted break-ins, break-in and acknowledgment to accessible masturbation. But the complex’s administering took no accomplishments to advance security.
Collier association accept been witnesses, victims and survivors of crimes. Above advisers accept been, too.
Anthoné Gerenis was a young, abandoned and hopeful Black man in Miami. Today, he’s a survivor gluttonous amends through a acknowledged battle.
Gerenis was not yet 18 aback he absitively to move to Gainesville to appear UF. He became a addressee of a Collier accommodation and was anon assassin for a minimum allowance job.
Over the summer of 2009, he boarded on his able career with The Collier Companies. Along with the job came what he calls a awful assignment ability — abounding of cover-ups, settlements, non-disclosure agreements, intimidation, retaliation, animal aggravation and animal advance that he accomplished immediate in the years that followed.
Gerenis remembers actuality told this aggregation is a family. In a way, they did become like a ancestors for him — until he became a attestant to their accurate colors.
With 26 communities in Gainesville alone, Collier claims to be the bigger provider in the nation of apprentice accommodation endemic by a clandestine individual. The aggregation aims to bifold its cardinal of accommodation homes beyond the nation over the abutting decade.
It boasts accepting added than 12,000 accustomed and apprentice accommodation homes. Collier has focused on accouterment accommodation in the southeastern United States, but it alcove as far as Georgia and Oklahoma. The aggregation provides accommodation in some of the bigger academy towns in Florida, namely Gainesville and Tallahassee.
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Gerenis said aggregate that happens at Collier runs through one man: Nathan Collier.
Since Gerenis’ aboriginal day on the job and over the abutting few years, he said there were connected reminders that Nathan Collier was in abounding ascendancy of Gainesville and his employees.
Gerenis believes administering starts at the actual top of the company, and the habits and reputations of administering crawl bottomward to every angle of the company.
Early in Gerenis’ career, he wasn’t acquainted of compromising situations involving baronial employees. Aural two years of actuality hired, Gerenis was promoted. He was accustomed an access in pay and bonuses, the 2010 Appointment Aggregation Member of the Year title, and he acceptable bachelor’s amount in telecommunications at UF in 2011. Then, he formed as a full-time agent as abettor administrator at Gainesville Place Apartments.
There, he had absolute interactions with acceptance who fabricated up the majority of Collier’s workforce. He heard instances of these adolescent workers experiencing issues with absolute management, such as association and acreage managers, as able-bodied as chief administering from the address appointment — article Gerenis would anon acquaintance himself.
In December 2011, Gerenis was answer to the address appointment in Downtown Gainesville, amid at 220 N Main St., and accustomed the responsibilities of traveling to all backdrop the aggregation endemic in Florida, Georgia and Oklahoma. In the afterward months, Gerenis became added accustomed than he admired with Michael Still, who managed the best all-encompassing portfolio of backdrop and advisers in the aggregation at the time.
“Within six months of my advance into headquarters, I became carefully acquainted of the ability of aggravation and advance involving advisers and apprentice employees,” Gerenis said.
During Gerenis’ campaign to altered properties, coworkers complained about Still’s animal aggravation and arbitrary treatment. Afterward protocol, Gerenis appear it and HR told him it opened an investigation.
As of Dec. 5, neither The Collier Companies nor Nathan Collier could be accomplished for animadversion admitting assorted buzz calls, emails and a appointment to two homes registered beneath his name.
In July 2012, Still was concluded from the aggregation by controlling aggregation members, Admiral Diana Miner, Carnality Admiral Mike Wilkie, Nathan Collier, CEO James Hogshead, Admiral of Operations Jennifer Clince and HR Administrator Elizabeth Guynn.
Gerenis said he got to apperceive Nathan Collier adequately able-bodied during his time with the company, alike aerial on his clandestine jet together.
“Either he was actually acquainted of aggregate activity on, which is actually terrible, or he was unaware, which is an amoral abridgement of control,” Gerenis said.
Although Still was afar from the company, Gerenis said added instances of animal harassment, animal advance and browbeating involving high-up advisers continued. But he trusted these complaints were actuality handled properly.
A above controlling administering agent at Collier for aloof over a year accustomed these issues had been accident connected afore they abutting the company.
“It’s actual abundant like a band environment,” said the above controlling accustomed anonymity out of abhorrence of retaliation.
Nathan Collier tweeted a adduce by Todd Whitaker Oct. 19 that apprehend “The ability of any alignment is shaped by the affliction behavior its leaders are accommodating to tolerate.”
The agent said Nathan Collier is a able accessible apostle who prides himself as a apprehensive leader.
“I can acquaint you from my own claimed acquaintance that it is a show,” the above controlling agent said. “It is all an act.”
After eight years alive for the company, Gerenis larboard Collier for addition job opportunity. In what Gerenis declared as casual timing –– abnormally alive the damaging advice he had –– The Collier Companies offered a job to Still actually bristles years afterwards Still’s termination.
Just weeks later, Still became the carnality admiral of operations, a position college than he was in afore his termination.
Gerenis afterwards came to apprehend why Still’s rehire went so smoothly. He recalled an acutely aerial about-face amount at all levels of the company, acceptation there would be few employees, if any, that knew of the complaints adjoin Still like Gerenis does.
Gerenis was offered an HR position with Collier afterwards about 10 months with his added job. Blind of Still’s rehire, he accustomed it. In Gerenis’ position, he abstruse all files are destroyed every bristles years, abrogation no cardboard aisle of any delinquency of advisers — authoritative the accompaniment of Still’s appropriate rehire not so casual anymore.
While Gerenis formed in animal assets at headquarters, he abstruse that the analysis of tenants was based on numbers rather than needs. He said tenants were declared about the appointment as “just a number” and “expendable.”
He heard a adage frequently acclimated in the address office: “heads and beds” — to abode as abounding tenants as possible.
“They’re apparent as aloof an asset,” Gerenis said. “An anytime accretion asset that we abstract money from.”
After alive with Still afresh about July 2018, Gerenis began experiencing animal harassment.
Another anonymous, above baronial agent who formed with the aggregation for about 10 years, said they mentored hundreds of bodies during their time with the company.
They said assorted adolescent women alive for the aggregation would say they are experiencing harassment, abusage and browbeating and were abashed of advertisement these claims to HR because there is “no confidentiality.”
As Gerenis abstruse added in his role at HR, he accepted why there was no accountability for misconduct. He said advertisement it fell on deafened ears. While alive in HR, he saw letters aggregate with higher-up controlling advisers that would afresh appear to be dismissed.
The aforementioned bearding antecedent had abutting interactions with Still and heard him alarm added advisers aspersing names — Gerenis included. They said Still was “instrumental” in accusation out a abundant woman from alive with the aggregation because she couldn’t accomplish her duties.
Gerenis said Still would ask him sexually-charged questions about his genitals and if he knew any added gay men in the aggregation that “would be bottomward to accept some fun and attractive for a daddy?”
By August 2018, Still began sexually assaulting him. His accepted displays of animal activation to Gerenis — affecting his abutting thigh and lower aback — bound angry into Still demography Gerenis with him on errands, locking themselves in the car and angrily affecting Gerenis’ genitals and assaulting him afore Gerenis manually apart it and escaped.
In September 2018, Gerenis accomplished a companywide animal aggravation training, but bare Still’s approval. Still asked Gerenis afresh about added gay men in the office, acceptable advancing and sexually assaulting Gerenis.
Later in September 2018, Still insisted Gerenis accompany him for a work-related drink, admitting Gerenis’ refusal. Still best him up anyhow from his company-owned home. This night consisted of exceptionable animal advancements, harassment, groping, advance and bull burning of alcohol.
Still told the aide to abide bushing Gerenis’ wine glass, application the aggregation acclaim agenda to pay for the night out as he was the one to accept the transactions.
“He is amenable for the acquaintance of his employees,” Gerenis said. “It’s his assignment to be in control.”
About a year ago, Still was dead by a car while walking abutting to his house. While Gerenis bidding his condolences to Still’s family, he said he abjure not actuality able to sit beyond from him in a balloon by jury.
In December 2018, afterwards activity to Still to address cast in Gerenis’ aggregation home, Still angry their alternation into addition afflictive and inappropriate situation, allurement Gerenis if it’s account his time to advice fix the cast while winking and avaricious his genitals.
The cast was abandoned again, as Still sexually addled him afterwards in the ages for afterward up, Generis said.
After accepting an appraisal from Best Restoration, an alfresco company, out of affair for his health, Gerenis said Still connected to avoid the issue. Aback Gerenis confronted Still and asked to accept the cast anchored again, Still denied him absolute and afresh asked if he would be arrive to Gerenis’ bedroom.
In March 2019, Gerenis’ doctors ordered an endoscopy, colonoscopy and requested a sample of the cast in the home and had procedures appointed for March 19, 2019, which Collier responded to by allurement Gerenis to abandon by the afterward Sunday, abandoned six canicule afterwards the procedure.
The aforementioned month, Gerenis abstruse of addition aide who Still bound his car while bottomward him off at his company-provided abode and sexually affected him adjoin his will. He told Generis he didn’t assurance added HR advisers and knew annihilation would appear out of advertisement it.
Also, Gerenis met with addition aide who accepted he acquainted unfairly advised by Still because he was the abandoned heterosexual macho on the aggregation and wasn’t reciprocating Still’s advances.
“As abundant as I would adulation to pin all the accusation on Mr. Still on what he did and his actions, he is a artefact of the ambiance which he was brought up in,” Gerenis said.
Feeling a complete abridgement of assurance and abortion by the company, Gerenis filed an official complaint with the Equal Employment Befalling Commission.
On May 30, 2019, Guynn, the HR director, and Still threatened Gerenis in a meeting, cogent him his brainy fettle and all-overs are accepting in the way of his role in the aggregation and he should alpha attractive for jobs elsewhere.
“The ability is ‘We can do and say whatever we want,’” the former, bearding controlling agent said.
So, he absitively to anon accomplishment the EEOC complaint that night.
The afterward day, Gerenis was brought into Guynn’s appointment with Still. Gerenis bidding agitation at their attack to use his all-overs as an alibi to say he is mentally unstable.
Then, Still accursed Gerenis.
Still afresh winked at Gerenis as he larboard the office.
He absolved Gerenis to his car and attempted to hug him to say goodbye. Gerenis said he backed abroad anon and asked to be larboard alone, to which Still reacted by giving one aftermost wink.
You should accept kept your aperture shut. Good f—ing luck.
Gerenis larboard the appointment affably afterwards putting up with years of harassment, misconduct, backfire and assault. He said the aggregation had bootless him, aloof like they had bootless endless advisers afore him and the assured advisers that will follow. Gerenis is a survivor that accomplished immediate horrors of absolved ability and control.
“An ambiance of animal exploitation, quid pro quo, harassment, additional a host of added activities all accept been hidden with altered cover-ups and corruption,” Gerenis said.
After years of abuse, he absent his home and job at a moment’s notice. Now, he wants accountability for the ones demography advantage of Collier’s advisers and tenants of their apartments.
“Unfortunately what happened to me is in the accomplished and I can’t change that, but I am anxious about what the abeyant can be for the accessible apprentice population,” Gerenis said.
In the afterward months afterwards his termination, Gerenis said he accustomed threats from added above advisers and an agent still with the aggregation who said he needs to watch his back. The agent still with the aggregation afterwards Gerenis’ abortion said Still was bent and warned that he has able friends.
During the bearding above executive’s time at the company, they got to apperceive Gerenis as a hard-working, affectionate and able employee.
The above controlling agent noticed the absolute ability of the aggregation aural 60 canicule of alive there, they said. They additionally had close, able interactions with Nathan Collier and catholic on his clandestine jet regularly.
“He rules that authority with an adamant fist,” the agent said.
In hindsight, the bearding above controlling said added controlling akin advisers actually took advantage of Gerenis because he was a young, Black man, citation the cast affair in the company-provided abode that was kept to abode the “African American employees.”
Over the 10 years the above baronial agent formed for the company, they abstruse the apprentice workers, which accomplish up a ample allotment of The Collier Companies, are beheld as bargain and replaceable. They said Collier’s tenants are apparent in the aforementioned ablaze and beneath no affairs would the aggregation accede hiring aegis for accommodation complexes.
The above baronial agent is abashed about tenants actuality taken advantage of.
They appetite any present and approaching advisers of the aggregation to angle their arena and be accurate so no added advisers accept to attestant and acquaintance what Gerenis had to. Change will hopefully appear to the aggregation because it will abide to happen, the bearding antecedent said.
Both bearding sources declared their time with the aggregation as frustrating. The aggregation will banish advisers abrogation the aggregation if it’s on the amiss terms, they both said.
“Unfortunately, it’s a actor percent true,” the above controlling said. “It aloof is. I would like to say that that’s the aboriginal time, but it’s not.”
Gerenis is actuality represented by advocate Kevin Sanderson and PR adumbrative Laurie Watkins through the TIME’S UP Acknowledged Aegis Armamentarium administered by the National Women’s Law Center, a 50-year-old gender amends organization.
The aegis armamentarium focuses on advisers experiencing abode animal aggravation and allowance survivors affix with attorneys, acceptable with acknowledged fees and accouterment media assistance.
Director of TIME’S UP Acknowledged Aegis Armamentarium Sharyn Tejani said almost 6,000 bodies accept accomplished out for abetment and about 4% are men. Tejani said she wants to accompany added acquaintance to abode animal aggravation and how accepted it can be.
Although it’s appear less, Tejani wants added bodies to apperceive animal aggravation can appear to men, like in Gerenis’ case. She said she sees cases of animal aggravation based on gender, race, bread-and-butter cachet and animal orientation.
Watkins and Sanderson are acceptable Gerenis with a acknowledged complaint filed Feb. 15, in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Florida. Gerenis’ aggregation understands the difficult alley ahead, because all the added survivors who are abashed to appear advanced or are in affairs that anticipate them from accomplishing so.
Gerenis’ aggregation said the company’s ability runs abysmal in agreement of political access and access to added companies. Nathan Collier’s father, Courtland Collier, was a Gainesville City Commissioner for 18 years.
“The ability and ability that [Nathan] does accept is not aloof smoke and mirrors,” Watkins said. “It’s real.”
The case is appointed for arbitration, a way to boldness disputes alfresco the attorneys courts, in February. Gerenis is gluttonous to balance amercement for his accident of bloom insurance, income, accommodation and the verbal, brainy and concrete corruption he endured for years at the easily of Still.
Gerenis wants bigger training programs implemented in the aggregation while bringing acquaintance to affected adjudication to assure apprentice employees, accurately bodies of color.
Between Gerenis and the anonymous, above employees, they apperceive of 24 added advisers who accomplished some anatomy of animal aggravation or assault. They said some are abashed to appear forward, some accept active non-disclosure agreements and some accept been affected to move on.
“The minute you try to go and allocution to outsiders, you are persona non grata,” Gerenis said. “They’re advancing afterwards you.”
Gerenis said he wants to accumulate angry for all the silenced choir and accompany alternating a new accepted for abode culture. Although he’s gluttonous justice, he’ll consistently be affected to alive with what happened to him and others.
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Troy is a fourth-year journalism above with a accessory in business administration. He ahead advised accounting for two years at Santa Fe Academy but has back transferred to UFCJC. Aback Troy isn’t writing, he enjoys watching the UF able-bodied teams, activity to the bank and spending time with his identical accompanying brother and family.
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