I'm at my wit's end. I reported some high-level employees for treating whistleblowers poorly, and now I'm facing retaliation. Has anyone been through this? How did you handle it? I feel like I'm trapped. #wrongful termination #protectbipoc

I left a company where I was a QA director for 30 years to work for a larger company (3.3 billion/year in revenue) and about a $65k/year increase + bonus. The position was in one of their COVID labs. While interviewing, two of the VPs and the lab director told me that there were other opportunities (other products in the pipeline and locations) if their COVID testing were to go away. About 6 months in they lost their COVID contract at the lab I was at and they were forced to close it. The "company" is still doing well with all their other operations (manufacturing of instruments, Genomics, Testing kits, labs, etc). Someone recently suggested that I have a wrongful termination case since I gave up so much based on their promises. Does anyone know if this could be true? Thanks. #advice #termination #wrongful termination

Option 1 - depending on what state you live in you can always file a complaint with your labor relations board or similar "employment/labor resolution board at the state level. Its their job to help mitigate (resolve) the issue Option 2 - Yes you can take your employer to court. Small claims court as long as the amount is within the jurisdiction of that court. In Calif the amount is up to 25K, but it varies by state and court. Typically to file in small claims is usually free or very low cost. If there is a cost it can be added to the amount you are suing for. Hope that helps #termination #wrongful termination

My husband was working in a small business and a garage setting when one day last week his boss/owner started a BBQ grill in the garage and the smoke began irritating my husbands eyes due a medical condition. He asked if they can take it outside of the garage, not to mention this is a safety hazard but the owner said he would be ok. So my husband said he would come back the next day to finish his work and the owner fired him on the spot all while beginning to argue and insult my husband calling him a whiner. Any advice. #wrongful #termination #jobsearch #advice

I was fired from my job because i didnt take a deposit to the bank on a sunday. I have never taking a deposit to the bank on a sunday.For one thing i did not have a drop box key or a car to take it to the bank. The district and store managers both knew that. No manger or assistant manger before me have never taking a deposit to the bank on sunday. Saturday and sunday deposits was always taking to the bank on Monday. I have proof on my phone that deposits was not taking to the bank every day. My district manager text me and asked me if i could the deposits from 10/13-10/21 2021 to the bank. I had to call my daughter to come and take me to the bank. She also asked me to take pictures of the deposit slips and send them to her. I still have the pictures and text messages from her. Now they are blocking me from getting unemployment. I need help what can i do? #wrongful fired #termination

As a courtesy to the owner, I will keep the company's name out of my post. This was a work-from-home, hospitality customer service job.

I worked at this company for four years, gaining experience in both hospitality customer service and various departments within the company. I loved my job and actually looked forward to going to work each day.

The company started to experience a growth spurt and along with that, some new management in the call center. As a Team Lead, it had been my responsibility to assist, coach, and develop agents on my team.

A new team lead came aboard and was trained correctly by our senior team lead on how to do her job. The senior team lead was in an accident that prevented her from working for about seven months and I became the senior team leader.

This new team lead, in turn, trained other new team leads on how to do the job her way, which left out quite a bit of paperwork that was required for the job. She and the other new team leads took advantage of the company by working excessive hours and became extremely bossy.

When I questioned what they were doing, I would get very rude comments back and those conversations were then given to the manager completely out of context and complaints made about me. Something wasn't sitting right, so I started documenting everything going on in the call center.

My responsibilities started being taken away such as one-on-one time with my agents and assigning work to be done. Our call center's focus became more quantity than quality which was a 180-degree turnaround for the company. Questions to my manager were being ignored and attempts at reprimanding me for the aforementioned conversations were being made by the manager and call center director.

At this point, I took most of my concerns and complaints to HR by way of a formal grievance on a Friday. By Monday, I did get to meet with the owner of the company who I highly respected until that meeting was over. As soon as that meeting was over, I was called into another meeting with the manager and call center director and given a formal reprimand. (thus retaliation)

Within a week, I was finally fired from my job via another meeting with the manager and call center director. I was ready for this as another company offered me a contract just two hours before I was terminated but the job would not start until November.

I filed for unemployment and figured that I would have to write an appeal. My termination paperwork stated a number of "exhibits" but no attachments to the email. I requested these exhibits from HR so that I could properly appeal if needed and was turned down stating they were proprietary and confidential. I most likely have all of these exhibits and many more.

In the end, the unemployment office stated that there was no misconduct on my part as claimed in my termination and I was given my unemployment. About the same time, the owner of the company emailed me and let me know he would be happy to give me a reference should I need one.

The moral to the story is this: if you are not comfortable at work, you feel like something is very wrong, DOCUMENT EVERYTHING! If your manager doesn't listen to you, find another job. I did and I am too damn old to put up with what I did for the past six months.

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