Wow, what a day. Just received a call from the Plant Manager that I was terminated effective immediately after an HR investigation.
The story:
I began working at this place in March of 2018 as a temporary employee. After 3 months they were bending over backwards to hire me. I have a great work ethic and routinely went above and beyond to finish the work, even helping others. Not bragging, as this job was so easy compared to where I've worked before. Around 3 yrs into shipping/receiving position, my supervisor kept piling work on me and allowing other employees to slack. I complained to upper management which basically went no where. So I opted to go to 3rd shift forklift material handler. The blenders who make the batches that I sat up for them were beyond belligerent. I was cursed repeatedly, harassed and bullied night after night. After complaining to my supervisor about it, he was indifferent and never reported anything. Eventually I pressed the issue and met with HR and Plant Manager about the issue in which, again nothing was done about it. Fast forward to another altercation with the blenders harassing me, and I blew up in their face, exposing their sleeping on the job, not using vital safety equipment for grounding flammable raw materials transfers, spitting into the batches, throwing foreign materials into the batches and not using proper filtering techniques, ensuring the quality of the batches were at spec. Those individuals went to the new PM and absolutely slandered me, defamatory comments and cherry picking comments to meet their agenda.. to get rid of a “snitch”.
I'm 50 years old, worked my ass off my entire life.. for this… before Christmas.
A father declining with dementia, my mother losing her eyesight.. divorced earlier in August.
So many violations in this place, and they get away with this. They have a “168 Policy” that encourages people to “speak up when you have concerns”. I did. I got fired. Wasn't given any details that I asked for. Apparently you can only speak up when it is what they want to hear.
I'm disgusted by this. I need a lawyer, call the labor board, call osha.. something..