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  • Human Rights, Harassment, and an endgame

    As of today, I am the FORMER Customer Service Manager of the store referred to in the thread "In Which Human Rights Are Violated."

    Not all of what I am going to say is related to the harassment of a mentally challenged adult with unique challenges...some of what I am going to say is just stuff that I need to get off my chest about the past eighteen months that I worked there.

    Let's start with the straw that broke the camel's back....

    This morning I went in to the manager's office to print timecards and ask a question when he asked me about an email from the Director of Loss Prevention, Safety, and Asset Protection. I had no idea what he was talking about...so I read the email

    "'....you customer service manager and R----s....." is the only phrase that I could fix on. Here this 500 pound diet Pepsi swilling macaroni and cheese eating behemoth of a human being with 8 customer service managers and he does not have the common decency to address me by name.....any how...I LOST IT. How dare he try to harass my from 90 miles away and not even use my name!!??!! That right there opened the flood gates and every single hurt feeling, harassing act, and insult coursed across my mind and I stormed out to calm down but not before telling the store manager Spineless Yes Man (SYM) that the company either needed to stop harassing me of fire me.

    Here are some of the highlights of harassment over the past eighteen months:

    1. I injured my hip and was put out of work for three weeks while it healed...while on a doctor's note, the company chose to use all of my vacation time rather than the 6 weeks of sick time I had access to.

    2. Upon returning to work, I needed to sit a little more than usual. Two weeks after returning to work, I returned from my day off to find my office chair had been removed by the Behemoth because I was "sitting too much."

    3. I submitted a request for reasonable accommodation in accordance with ADA "a chair to sit in while I recovery from an injury." I worked and waited for ten hours, no one from the corporate office called to see if I was OK...that little stunt cost me another week out of work.

    4. Upon returning to work, with a doctor's note ORDERING the chair for me to sit in I had to wait for almost 3 hours while some one drove to the store with my chair.

    5. I was forced to write up an employee for sitting in the office after she had a miscarriage to cover their actions of removing the chair.

    6. In a manager's meeting--you know with all the departments present--the DM called me "incompetent" and "unreasonable" for not being able to read another manager's mind or follow a 4th hand direction.

    7. Being written up for making an error in the cash office after working open to close and returning to open the following morning.

    8. Being ordered to attend a mandatory manager's meeting 90 minutes from my home store with no compensation for mileage....while running a fever--sick with ear infections and sinus infection. Exactly two items on the agenda were related to business in the Bay State. Both items took a sum total of 15 minutes to cover--yet even though I was...those items were held until the last 15 minutes of a 4 hour meeting.

    9. Over the past 9 months, the ONLY time my immediate supervisor comes to the store for an audit is when she knows I will not be present. That way she can leave instructions with a third party and yell at me for calling her to get clarification on what she said.

    10. Endured a 4 hour long pissing match via email that culminated in two photos and a text message about Langer's 100% Fruit Punch with 120% Vitamin being authorized on WIC...it ended with a "Good to know"--her version of "f**k you!"

    11. Being written up for failing to follow a policy related to a freezer breakdown. While getting instructions on thawing the case via text message, emptying 8 linear feet of frozen food, securing it in the freezer--I failed to "appropriately preserve $670 of merchandise." Mind you there is no written policy or procedure that could be produced to support their write up....but, I "should have known better."

    12. Enduring a 25 minute long lecture about the situation centering on Mr. D. During which I was told that I was "out of line," "had no right to use the word discrimination," "care more about His (Mr.D.'s) rights than the rights of other 'normal' customers," and was informed that the company would "continue to gather facts to determine how to deal with my actions."


    SO--now that I am amongst the unemployed, I will relay all of this information to my attorney, file for unemployment for harassment and FINALLY get rid of this headache that I have had for over a year.

  • #2
    I would also go the papers about how you were treated and how they treated Mr. D. What they pulled is absolutely bullshit all the way around - they deserve to be taken to the cleaners as far as I'm concerned.

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    • #3
      Good luck!

      What fucking assholes!
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      • #4
        Quoth KuariKaydrith View Post
        I would also go the papers about how you were treated and how they treated Mr. D. What they pulled is absolutely bullshit all the way around - they deserve to be taken to the cleaners as far as I'm concerned.
        A thousand times this! Best of luck!

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        • #5
          "had no right to use the word discrimination,"
          No, no, no, a THOUSAND times, NO! Big mistake on their part. I was gonna say "Lawyer up, NOW!" -- but you already have. Good man/lady/whatever -- we're not picky 'round these parts.

          There are sooo many things wrong with what they did. Write down everything you can think of, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem, while it's fresh in your mind. Also, you may wish to print out your posts (but not others' replies, if possible) that you posted here about this, as they may contain forgotten details, and will serve as a timestamped history. Click the little #_ in the top-right bar just above a post to isolate it -- this will allow you to just print that one post/save it to a file (if you have a "PDF Printer" or something similar set up -- many free ones are available), if you wish.

          If you are considering going to the press with this -- Get everything straight with the attorney and let HIM go to the press. That way, you'll both be on the same page, and you won't inadvertently say something that could jeaopardize any potential case you may have. Redirect ALL questions to him. Also, it gives the press a single point of contact for all questions -- the lawyer.
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          • #6
            Quoth carryonnow View Post
            12. Enduring a 25 minute long lecture about the situation centering on Mr. D. During which I was told that I was "out of line," "had no right to use the word discrimination," "care more about His (Mr.D.'s) rights than the rights of other 'normal' customers," and was informed that the company would "continue to gather facts to determine how to deal with my actions."
            Excuse me? Normal? I can't even type what I'm thinking because it involves violence. All I can say is I hope they get what they deserve. And you too! But in a good way. You deserve more than that horrible place.
            Replace anger management with stupidity management.

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            • #7
              Oh man. To the "management" of the OP's now-former employer: NSFW

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              • #8
                I rarely come on here but I really just wanted to say thank you for standing up for Mr. D's rights, and for your own personal rights. Get'em Girl!

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                • #9
                  There are so many violations there I can't even count them.

                  I hope you find something better very soon.
                  When you start at zero, everything's progress.

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                  • #10
                    There are no normal people.

                    There are the 'temporarily able-bodied' (since almost everyone will become disabled at some point in their lives, even if only temporarily), and the 'temporarily neurotypical' (whatever 'neurotypical' actually is).

                    I would go so far as to say that 'not able-bodied and/or not neurotypical' is the actual normal human state.
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                    1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
                    2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
                    3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
                    4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

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                    • #11
                      I was out sick (2 days of being violently vomitous!) while this all went down, and I still havent heard much of what's been going on. I am absolutely disgusted with this company, and really hope Carryonnow just indeed nail their balls to the wall in anyway possible
                      In the meantime, I'm job-hunting as we speak....

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                      • #12
                        Oh, wow. I'm sorry you got fired but it sure sounds like someplace no decent person would want to work anyway. I hope both you and TM find new, better jobs soon and this nasty bunch goes down in legal flames!
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                        • #13
                          These people have no conscience. I despise people who think disabled people should be hidden away from society so no one has to deal with them.

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Shyla View Post
                            These people have no conscience. I despise people who think disabled people should be hidden away from society so no one has to deal with them.
                            If that's the case, then to me, they should be hidden away, too, since people like that "lady" have what I would call a social perception disability. This is generally the inability to view and otherwise deal with someone else as an actual person and it comes in many forms, such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, etc.

                            There are people with physical and mental disabilities and then there are people with social perception disabilities. The people who are consistently rude, bigoted or otherwise meet our sucky customer criteria are the ones who have social perception disabilities, because they see us and other people as robots, not actual humans.

                            The good news is that these disabilities can be cured, possibly for free, by changing your perception of people. The bad news is that it can take a whole lot of time, which is what we don't have when dealing with SCs.
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                            • #15
                              Oh man! you guys just gave me an idea...I need to add that as some one with a diagnosed mental health condition, I didn't feel that the company would protect me from their lunatic customers to my harassment and wrongful termination suit.

                              you guys are the best!

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