I received an offer from a financial firm that would be located in Silicon Valley where I lived. They offered to give me $20m in clients that I would be receiving front the Regional Leader. Assets under care is a large percentage of how we are compensated, so this was almost too good to be true. On my second day, he approached me and said he would increase it to $30m if I moved to an office in San Francisco. I decided against it because I am not a city person. A call had already been setup for another Financial Advisor who was retiring and would be giving me the $30m in clients and she was already told that I accepted the offer in SF. I told her that I was not interested making the Regional Leader look bad. He then proceeded to make my life hell and reduced the amount he was giving me to $2m, impacting my compensation significantly. This was a series of what I call “beat down meetings” where I would get chewed out for no reason at all. He called me on Saturdays early in the morning just to harass me and also knew I was going to be out with my gf for dinner on my birthday so he called and refused to get off the phone. He said, “Your life will be a lot easier if you move to SF”. I had no choice so I moved to SF. My girlfriend broke up with me because of the move and “my industry and company”. I also lost my rent control which was $2,200/m and 1BRs in my complex were going for $3,400/m. The $30m was given to someone else and I was given a $8m book of business with multiple compliance issues, so I was being intentionally setup to fail because I could lose my license based on things that were happening in these accounts. Two people reported him to HR. HR was in his corner the entire time. The office in SF turned out to be one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in America. There were homeless encampments on both sides of my office so you had to walk through one just to get inside. Every morning I had to clean up trash, syringes, poop and even a bike that was set on fire with plastic melted. I applied internally to multiple jobs and received two verbal offers to be declined by a generic email after it went through HR review. I then received an offer from outside the firm and they reviewed my contract. In the fine print there was a clause where I had to pay my employer $75,000 in training fees if I left within the first three years. At this point I emailed someone high up in management of a U-Haul van being robbed in front of the office. He happened to have been in SF recently and saw that it is a failed city and helped justify moving me out. He probably saved my life. They said that they would find temporary office space in October. I moved back to the same apartment complex I was in to pay the same amount of rent I was paying before because I was splitting with a roommate. I still had to go to the SF office until they found a new location. Our company does not have good IT so there are a lot of manual processes like scanning checks and storing documents that cannot be done from home for legal purposes. I had to go 2.5 hrs each way on public transit just to complete basic tasks and check mail, disrupting my day when paperwork had to be processed within 24 hrs. They failed to pay the lease on an office I was supposed to move into in January. The SF office widows were hit by bullets one night, so I had to move all client documents and computers. Typically out Regional Leader will send out an email when something like this happens, like when a branch was impacted by flooding. Nothing about this so I took the initiative to send the entire region an email about the shooting and I mentioned that I was forced to relocate. Two days later there was an orchestrated set of emails from my peers bashing me for sharing it. The Regional Leader rallied people to make stuff up about me to HR. I now had no place to go to do work legally required for my job. We had to get all the windows boarded up and glass cleaned, so I had to go up every day for a week. Keep in mind, I have clients that I need to take care of and sales goals to meet this entire time. It is truly miraculous that I am still above goal. On Monday I went in to meet a contractor and it looked like some started a fire in the doorway of the office. Wednesday I found out the search for a new office will take another 4-8 weeks. Management is trying to squeeze me out and make me fail, those fucks don't understand this is just going to motivate me more to succeed.
After doing some research I learned that forcing someone to relocate for work is a misdemeanor charge in California. I filed a police report with the San Mateo County DA yesterday and hired an attorney for a civil suit. Looking to connect with a journalist.