I made a post roughly two or three weeks back about my CEO verbally abusing me, my coworkers, and my manager. This wasn't the first time, but this is the first time I had decided to stand up against it and defend myself and others. I didn't use any cuss words, I didn't name call, I didn't yell, I just simply stood my ground indefended our respect and work ethic.
Conveniently within two to three weeks time, they suddenly had an outburst of write-ups against me and had me terminated, despite four and a half months of constant praise from management and the CEO of how good I was doing.
The key issues, besides the verbal abuse, is that from what I heard from my coworkers who were leaking information in me, there were already talks about having me removed after that day. There was even a meeting, with the branch, that I wasn't even invited to we're one manager was alluding that the workplace is going to have more revenue opportunities for everyone, which we all knew that indicated that somebody was being fired because two people have been fired before after hearing this.
so we firmly believe that they were drumming up wrote ups within a small time frame just a fire me. Even more notably, a coworker, well, ex co-worker, informed me that our manager slid him in another co-worker a postie note letting them know that one of the write-ups, which was my second write-up, that the CEO applied to everyone at our branch for something relatively vague, that the three of their write-ups were being tossed in the trash and that he was told by the CEO that the purpose of the write-ups was to give me a write-up without it making it seem like I was being targeted.
TL;DR: is it legal to attempt to hammer out as many write-ups as you can, despite validity, just to have a reason to fire somebody? More importantly, is it illegal to apply a branch-wide write-up to get away with writing a specific individual up without targeting them specifically.
I'm already waiting for consultation regarding the verbal abuse, but I did mention all the other things, because the more and more information I'm receiving from coworkers, where it's not only information they're receiving from what they're hearing but for managers as well, I'm starting to feel my termination may be retaliation.