Gay JPMorgan worker claims boss warned DEI is not going to save you before bank forced him to resign

A JPMorgan Chase executive told a gay employee to separate his “gay job” from his “day job” and warned him that “DEI is not going to save you” before the bank forced him to resign, a new discrimination lawsuit alleges.Brian Larson, a former senior associate in JPMorgan’s rotational Chase Associate Program, claimed that supervisor Peter Bergman repeatedly made disparaging remarks about his sexual orientation and his leadership role in the bank’s Pride employee group, according to the complaint filed last week in Manhattan federal court.Larson alleged that Bergman called him into an unplanned Zoom meeting in late June 2022 and told him he was spending too much time on his work with Pride, according to the complaint.Bergman allegedly told Larson he needed to “separate [his] gay job from [his] day job” and characterized his Pride work as an “extracurricular” activity, the complaint alleged.News of the lawsuit was first reported by The Independent.When Larson asked whether his work for Bergman’s Growth Segments team was suffering, Bergman allegedly replied: “Your work is not suffering now, but I could see it happening.”Larson alleged that the ordeal caused him to suffer intense anxiety, panic attacks, depression and insomnia, and triggered a resurgence of trichotillomania, “a hair-pulling disorder often triggered by stress” that he had not experienced since childhood, according to the complaint.“We take these allegations very seriously and after a thorough internal investigation we found no evidence to substantiate Mr.Larson’s claims,” a spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase told The Post on Monday.The bank said multiple managers identified performance gaps during Larson’s time at the firm and provided coaching aimed at helping him improve.According to JPM, Larson was given additional time to secure a permanent position after completing the Chase Associate Program and ultimately resigned after failing to land one.The program is a two-...