Some back story, I worked at an art distribution warehouse and recently my coworkers and I had been talking about unionizing. I started writing “Unionize” on dust, as it’s an old warehouse, so dust is on every shelf and conveyer belt. After a while they started wiping it off so I started writing it on little piece of paper and leaving them on shelves or wherever. I understand this is passive aggressive behavior but I never thought it was harmful. Until I get called in to the office the other day and they told me I am being terminated for defacing company property. They were vague when I asked what they meant, because I couldn’t believe writing in dust was vandalism. I thought maybe a coworker had actually graffitied the bathroom or something. So I admitted “the most I ever did was write in dust…” my boss just shrugged and said something like I “put an unapproved paper” in a company space or something to that effect. I was flustered and dumbfounded so I apologize for the sloppy retelling. I am a hard worker. People would always remark on how good of a worker I was. Or how fast I was. I thought they had no reason to fire me. What’s worse is it felt like there was hope at my workplace to turn things around but my hope got cut short. I guess I just wanted to remind people, we’ve got a lot of work to do to make work better…
If you have any direction or action I can take to help my former coworkers without getting into trouble, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time! I know how much it costs.