I file a Formal Complaint on Retaliation against my Manager I told my Director of my department on what had happen to me on a meeting that we had a day before I reported the issue we had a meeting with the Manager on a conference call on the phone with me and 4 other employees the topic of the meeting was about the OR department which I do work at a hospital the manager was saying that the OR was not being clean correctly which I always saw the floor tech using a disposable mops for each OR room when they really was suppose to use floor machines in each rooms.
So I stared to answer to the Manager that since day one I started working there I only saw the floor tech using mops I never saw the machines in the rooms machines where always use only in the hall ways, so in his response he said to me this is not Puerto Rico and its not he knows that am Puerto Rican which the meeting had "Nothing" to do with my nationality and my parents place of birth and ancestry origin.
HR said that all parties that was in the meeting said they never heard the manager saying this is not puerto rico and its not This is what happened to me.
I sent as many emails as I could to my personal emails but they turned his emails off. Ok so im a union worker and opted out my med benefits since i have my own insurance. Tge problem is that even though i did this, money is still being taken out of my checks for it and ive never even recieved a medical insurance card. Theyve deducted more than dollars so far. I called hr and they said i never opted out and its not in theyre computers even though i have proof i opted it out on mypath.
Who do i turn to now? Valentine14, I am sorry that you had to experience that. Words do hurt, but don't let that person drag you down. They just have to pick on someone to build themselves up, they are no one special. I was mistakenly emailed by a Manager whom was emailing other Managers in the office. This Manager was making fun of me and she wrote " Is she on drugs" she was referring to me, I got a copy.
I was deeply humiliated. If HR dosen't back people up, who would I go to? I just started a new job. I've only been working there 2 days, with today being my second day. Today my boss instructed me that she has two "pet peeves". One of the pet peeves, she said, is "To go over my head to corporate for any complaints" and to "Keep that in mind". This is only my second day and I feel threatened. I work at a gas station. What is your advice? I have a lawsuit against a billion dollar global company because of my direct boss, head of Global HR.
May we talk a bit more in detail? I really regret contacting H. I wish I never did. I was bullied by my boss and they did nothing but try to throw me under the bus with lies that boss has invented along the way.
Trust me H. This happened to my son, who works at the same place that I do, but in a different department. His boss is known to be a bully, and his rants to employees are even audible in the hallway outside the shop.
The HR person was sweet and smiling, but he walked out of the joint meeting thinking he was going to be fired at any moment.
Sending him a link to this article helped him understand what happened and feel better about himself. Keep posting advice for people who have toxic bosses. Oh my God!!!! I reached out to H. There are people on the flip side of this too who are falsly accused. Yes - there are some bad HR departments, but there are also some crap employees. So I am struggling with this same thing and I am finding out that I am not the only person that this has happened to.
What can I do to make this stop. Is there anything I can do the beat them at this game. I want to be the one that stands up to the bully. I was forced to quit my ODSP job after 12 years of employment at a multicultural workplace. I tried to say no to a job that I was pushed to take on.
I didn't want to take the job because she already had an assistant, I didn't think it was fair to offer me the work, when this person already had help. Instead of realizing this, I was offered paid work and stupidly took the assignment.
It was easy enough, entering surveys on line, when it came time to be paid, she didn't want to pay me. She screamed at me the day before christmas eve for asking a question.
I was a disabled employee, who was told the other department would be paying me, so went to the other department for that.
I should of realized this wasn't true. I really believed in this organization and after this, lost faith in them altogether. I was badly treated after being paid and other people that were her partners there began to intimidate me when I was at work. When I spoke to human resources, she said that the person I did the assignment for 'wouldn't do that to me' after she watched it happen.
I was in shock. Shortly after human resources told me that 'things wouldn't be the same for me anymore' and the executive director called me back and discouraged me from coming back to work.
This after 12 years of employment, I was fired for asking to be paid for the paid work I was promised, in a workplace where 'everyone matters'. Still shocked by this and it had been some time since I left. I was able to write to the minister of labour and he visited this workplace. They don't follow their own policies, and tend to operate on the principle of giving permanent staff privileges.
I filed a sexual harassment and the dept sexual discrimination, its been almost a month and still no decision has been made and the president has gone on vacation to Italy for 2 week and says he will deal with it when he gets back.
The boss is still working and is bully us and can't focus worse yet it affecting my health. I have a seizure disorder. I am in need of help. I am an HR department of one for a small company. I recently learned a team member has inappropriate feelings for me that he has expressed to multiple members of the company.
He asked one team member if she would "do me" and went on to accuse her of being in a sexual relationship with me. Even though I am happily married he has reportedly asked several team members what his chances relationship are with me. I have never given any indication that I am remotely interested in him. He disclosed this fact to other team members. After learning of these facts, I took the information to the owner, told him I am uncomfortable and because I am personally involved I cannot be part of any investigation and asked that he follow up with the team members that have heard these comments or are aware of the actions.
He spoke to one person the women that was asked if she would "do me" and then did no additional follow up other employees. He passed it off to the director of operations. The director of operations did not interview any team members. He decided to offer a last chance agreement to the employee in question. The employee asked who made the allegations which was not disclosed and then refused to sign the agreement.
He still works there and the director of operations is actually wanting to promote him. I feel as though the company now looks at me as a troublemaker for bringing this to their attention. In addition, the co-worker that brought all of this to my attention is extremely nervous to come to work and has to interact with this worker on a regular basis.
We are both concerned for our safety and extremely disappointed in the lack of response from ownership. I have no idea what to do next. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you. Be of good cheer. It is hard for the world not to notice what you are trying to express. Working people are trying to get your experience in the public domain. I do understand from personal tragedy.
Here is the classic problem with the Naziesque HR department. Anybody who claims discrimination is believed. We are a nation of whiners. Complaints mirror a bell-shaped curve. We are at the far right of the curve.
When enough are hurt without merit, the whiners will be vacated. Sorry, but it is just a matter of time. Hang on unfortunate soul. I am on the flip side of this and I hope HR does the right thing. The guy who turned me in has made comments in the past about how I'm "fire-proof" and how he would like to see me fired. I am not in management, but am a grunt just like him.
I don't understand why he is doing this. I hope that HR makes the right determination. I have21 years of service and have never been in trouble before. I am so stressed about this. With my level of education and in my work field, I couldn't find another job that even comes close to what this job pays. I understand the need for policies against workplace harassment, but I fear for my livelihood.
Mine is a little bit different in that it was a supervisor offer a training class. I'm a new hire. I went to her asking to be put in another class because the Dynamics in the classroom had gotten so out of hand I couldn't concentrate and couldn't learn. She insisted on knowing who's the names of the people were. I didn't want to tell her cause I knew that would not end well. She pushed it so reluctantly I gave her the names. She then said she was going to call each of them into her office and talk to them about it.
I asked her not to more than once. She ignored me and it definitely went from bad to worse to the point that they said it was offensive for me to test my blood sugar which I don't even do every day.
And also make me not asking me questions after I have to leave the room but yet they're asking that I get a room reserved so that I can test my blood sugar so basically if I have her have to test I have to leave the room and cannot get myself caught up when I return.
It's total retaliation and it could have been avoided. So it makes me wonder if she did it on purpose and ignored me knowing that would happen so that it would be so distasteful that I would resign on my own.
It really ruined my entire weekend and that was another thing she said she had to see me in front of the class and with the people she pulled in she sent him an email. And a few other things but I think the point has been made you just buy that one event and there's been more than one in our interactions. If she does just enough things right or seemingly nice that it's mixed up enough that I can't call her on it with her manager and HR.
The scary thing about all of this is when you work in HR. I work in HR with a genuine desire to help people. I thought I was coming on to a good organization. My prior employer tried to get me to stay, even offering a salary increase and a stay bonus. I was stupid. My new boss has been awful to work for.
She's unresponsive, I haven't been able to get ANY direction on areas she wanted me to do work in where I had no prior experience. Goals are supposed to be set within the first month. My termination date is next month and I will have been here 8 months with no goals.
Her reason for my termination is attendance I had a family emergency combined with illness that had me out a week in Feb, a house fire in early April that left me homeless for a night until the insurance could put me in a hotel, and 3 days after that, the grandmother that raised me died - it's now mid-May.
She also cited that our communication styles don't work and I am not meeting her expectations. It's hard to meet expectations when I don't have any set for me and I can't get responses or direction. There were several other instances where things were just bad. During a breakout, she asked plainly, "What's wrong with your face? I'm white and she's black, which I was never concerned about, but talk about inappropriate??
During all of my struggles, I told my boss about my Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, for which I've been hospitalized in the past. My reasoning was to take a day to seek help because I told her I was on the verge of ending up back in the hospital. I've been given 30 days to focus on a job search and documenting my procedures and I'm not sure what to do. I wrote a long letter to a Partner of the Firm explaining all of the things that have been going on and how I've been commended for my work and asked for severance and to not owe for vacation - I don't even want my job.
They can have that. I also pointed out that the Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder are now covered by the ADA, which I doubt she knows because she doesn't stay up to date on changes. Before, i starting my story.
People with mental illness, they get security guards and try to put you a crazy person situation and let you go that way. I have the same situation. My manager put so many rules specifically for me. I reported my disability along with complaining about my manager. Next day i went work and I did not see any replies. I was surprised. And couple seconds, the page was blocked. It was saying no access, it was huge red circle and saying i was blocked.
I asked other employees of my company, they had no issue. Working at client site as an employee of a contractor company. I knew the manager would walk soon to fire me. I went to the other building. I wrote couple lines saying i was blocked from the page and when i sent out emails from my personal email, i got blocked message back. The fax is the same story. There was a guy standing by and i asked his help and he scanned my note and sent to my manager, who would fire me through the client.
The client is department of something. I went back to my desk couple minutes i was shaking, then tried again and i was unblocked. She did not get to fire me because of gov agency. The other manager came and talked to me and he was nice. I told him i did not pure complain about my manager. I explained him my disease and i told him i was not comfortable to telling that to the other manager. He started to say maybe i did not have the skills on my resume maybe they need to check.
He said maybe department of My friend told me took as much medical leave as possible because they would fire me. I did not listen. That happened to me. They made people go to a meeting but made me come early. There was a taxi waiting and they told me i should go home because i did not look ok, which is bullshit.
When i stepped into the office I saw the security guys. I wanted to my dr because i was scared. They asked my keycard and employee id. I escaped to the other building. My manager was yelling catch her, catch her. The security guy started to yell, "ma'm do not touch me. Anyway someone came and i explained him that after i mentioned about sick leave , they were firing me.
I gave my key and id and left security guys behind and took that taxi home. Next day, they contacted me and said they will give me sick leave. A day after, i got a letter saying i had 2 days to apply for short term disability and my employment was ending by the end of the week which is end of the pay period.
I called short term disability benefit they say, the HR will contact them and they will get paper filled out from my side. I do not know what they can do not give me the short term disability. Their reason to fire me is i did not perform well on the job and i showed up before i was healthy enough.
So what is the solution? I've been going though this with my HR for the past 2 years nothing has changed my work environment is still the same hostile! I've saved emails and documents I case the fired me I will have proof the file a lawsuit but I'm doubt they will fire me cause they know I will sue. I'm thinking about taking a stress leave since I'm not having panick attacks and the doctor put me on anti anxiety meds - please let me know what advice you can give me.
Hey Undercover lawyer, I like the article. I've been in a situation before like many describe here where good old boys club was mandatory for our department which was very detailed work. But the thing that was scary about it was that we had to work as a team and if the rest of the people there wanted to turn their back on you just because they didn't like you, they could and no one would hold them accountable.
This had happened to someone that I worked with when the work wasn't coming together correctly. A person that my coworker had to rely on for the work to be finished, would fire back saying that the work wasn't right and would make himself unavailable after each issue was corrected.
After my coworker left the company that person turned their habits to me. I would get blamed for the other person stalling the process even when there was clear documentation that they were preventing the work from getting out. My boss would do nothing and even blame me for not confronting the guy. I wasn't management, so it wasn't up to me to get the guy to do his job. I hear someone say once, that if you get mad at work, it's no one else's fault you're mad but yourself.
Doesn't matter if the person you're mad at is always late, or you don't like something else about them,. Boy this is my story. Going back and forth about HR Quitting, waiting.
I will file a grievance to the EEOC. I was advised by a lawyer to do this. But where are the lawyers that can help? Your article is perfect. I was recently "let go", for reasons that they say i violated the attendance policy. If that was the case, i would have been let go a lot sooner. My fear at my job was i knew my cell lead and some senior employees were jealous because i sprang quikly from their hold and started to train in another area.
Therefore, a week and a half after my successful review from. Wish i had known how to protect myself. Staples allows its managers to use zero tolerance procedures and staff can not find out who filed the complaint.
I was fired by them in Bridgewater Nova Scotia for touching staff. I was not allowed to know who filed the complaints and so could not defend myself. The local lawyer confirmed that this type of incident is common place. The truth is as an IT graduate I was better qualified to be the stores technology supervisor than the guy who was given the job. It turns out that the store Manager was sleeping with the person she gave the job to.
The brother of that person also worked for the store in the same department. Both of these things were sack able offenses by the Manager. We found out later about this when the technology supervisor was boasting to my wife and I about his affair.
You are right HT will not help you in these cases. Staples did fire the Manager however on the same day! It turns out one of the female employees complained about the Manager to HR using an anonymous reporting the company has. In this case she got what she deserved. HR did reveal to me that I had been reported by both sexes. The Manager and boyfriend spring to my mind. The reason? If she were fired I was likely to be in line to manage the store. If this happened I would get access to all of her files and the true picture of all her misdeeds including why she appointed him and not me to the supervisors job.
That said, I hope workers, especially somethings, don't mistakenly assume complaining to HR will now always end with positive outcomes. Here's why:. I was taught very early in my career as an HR professional that for every employee complaint, there are three sides to the story - the accuser, the accused, and the truth.
It's rarely black and white. That's because we're dealing with human resources. Humans are highly subjective in their perception and interpretation of events. What is normal to one person is offensive to another , etc.
Deciding which one has the right view on the situation is the challenge. This gets further complicated by the fact that HR works for the employer , not the employee. Yes, HR is technically in place to support the needs of employees, but their bigger purpose is to keep employees happy and motivated so they remain good producers and keep strong loyalty to the company.
Therefore, when an employee comes to HR with a negative claim or issue, HR's first thought is, "How do I minimize the impact of this on the entire organization? Especially, for somethings, who were raised by parents that taught them everyone is equal and should feel justified in sharing when they feel they've been wronged. For them, the response by HR can often seem highly insensitive and lacking.
When in reality, HR is trying to look at it from all sides. As someone who spent years in corporate HR and recruiting, I can't tell you how many times I saw an employee mistakenly assume HR was where you went for career coaching. In many cases, serving the needs of the company also means serving the needs of employees—for example, with things like ensuring the company is offering competitive salaries, addressing bad management, and working to raise morale.
And that can be helpful! If the behavior is upsetting but not illegal like a boss who micromanages you or is just a jerk , whether or not to talk to HR depends on how severe the situation is. That means that going to HR about a bad boss can be risky. In many cases your boss will find out about it, and some HR people can end up intervening in ways that make the situation worse. Good ones will work to protect you from retaliation, but not all are skilled at doing that, and retaliation can sometimes be subtle meaning it might be obvious to you, but hard to explain its significance to your HR person.
There are some exceptions to this, though!
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