When I go to HR because “we have an open door policy” with issues regarded as PROTECTED ACTIVITY, things get worse for me… pressure to resign, written up the next day for “bad attitude and insubordination” then starving me out. (Starving is when they stop giving work to a flag/task rate tech so they’ll quit due to staying being no longer economically viable)
Stopped going to HR. My boss has a complaint file stacked higher than my bills but remains employed on 200k salary, last one to show up and the first to leave, bc he’s under contract. This dude has said to a tech who was the sole caregiver for his gravely I’ll mother, “you need to get over your dead mom or I’m going to fire you.”
I had major surgery with 6 wk lifting restriction and this jerk went to HR and found a way to not let me recover at home. HR came back at me with, “your job isn’t light duty but we can accommodate you”. 3 days after surgery I was back at work in a 100+ degree open air shop. They just wanted me there to train the new hire and had me flag the tasks I coached him through so I got paid something…. Much less than I normally do on my own.
EEOC is now involved in some fair pay, discrimination, and retaliation concerns. And I filed for partial unemployment. I’m the only woman in the shop.
I heard if you report something to OSHA you get half the fine. We have no working eyewash, for one. It’s a dealership owned by a Fortune 500 company.