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anonymous · 04-19-2015, 06:06 PM

At the moment it's black marks in my record, and I'm not sure if I have to disclose those black marks to the state when my license renewal comes up. Or if they get sent to the public database, which would also publicly tar and feather me.

I honestly wonder if they are trying to intimidate me into resigning, six weeks before I qualify for increased and potentially expensive benefits should my in-remission illness recur. I wonder if this is an EEOC case, or if the EEOC would find it too nebulous. But constructive dismissal - that's the term, thanks Dana. That's what they're doing.

I've searched online all day and found that here, employees have few to no rights when it comes to workplace investigations. Employers don't have an obligation to provide due process, nor to conduct a fair investigation. They can pretty much do what they want. Then my only option is to sue and hope - but countersuits for false workplace bullying allegations seem only to have succeeded in the UK and Australia, and not here in the US of A.

I have stopped blubbering, although I am still hyperventilating and having chest pain, but I realize I need a plan for tomorrow. I do plan to find a nasty, aggressive attorney. I also plan to find out how long my job has been advertised on the market. And contact my family doc for something for sleep, because it's going on 96 hours now.

Thanks for the suggestions and support, all. I'll let my attorney talk for me once I find him/her. As for tomorrow ... whatever I do/don't say, do/don't do, will be manipulated and misrepresented. If I'm quiet, I'll be treating them 'differently'. If I decline to help them with stuff their manager should take care of, I'll be perceived as hostile. (No good deed goes unpunished - I've helped them out of situations in the past year when they were incompetent, and had one complaint from a drug addict because I was the one dealing with him instead of them; and if I stop bailing them out now, they'll say I'm hostile.) Anyway, it promises to be a very tense day. Me trying to stay in company so there are always witnesses, them pretending ignorance as to my new behavior.

04-19-2015, 06:06 PM	#8
anonymous Operations Operative Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: in hiding Posts: 578	At the moment it's black marks in my record, and I'm not sure if I have to disclose those black marks to the state when my license renewal comes up. Or if they get sent to the public database, which would also publicly tar and feather me. I honestly wonder if they are trying to intimidate me into resigning, six weeks before I qualify for increased and potentially expensive benefits should my in-remission illness recur. I wonder if this is an EEOC case, or if the EEOC would find it too nebulous. But constructive dismissal - that's the term, thanks Dana. That's what they're doing. I've searched online all day and found that here, employees have few to no rights when it comes to workplace investigations. Employers don't have an obligation to provide due process, nor to conduct a fair investigation. They can pretty much do what they want. Then my only option is to sue and hope - but countersuits for false workplace bullying allegations seem only to have succeeded in the UK and Australia, and not here in the US of A. I have stopped blubbering, although I am still hyperventilating and having chest pain, but I realize I need a plan for tomorrow. I do plan to find a nasty, aggressive attorney. I also plan to find out how long my job has been advertised on the market. And contact my family doc for something for sleep, because it's going on 96 hours now. Thanks for the suggestions and support, all. I'll let my attorney talk for me once I find him/her. As for tomorrow ... whatever I do/don't say, do/don't do, will be manipulated and misrepresented. If I'm quiet, I'll be treating them 'differently'. If I decline to help them with stuff their manager should take care of, I'll be perceived as hostile. (No good deed goes unpunished - I've helped them out of situations in the past year when they were incompetent, and had one complaint from a drug addict because I was the one dealing with him instead of them; and if I stop bailing them out now, they'll say I'm hostile.) Anyway, it promises to be a very tense day. Me trying to stay in company so there are always witnesses, them pretending ignorance as to my new behavior.