My wife was fired from her job last week. This is a small company, less than 30 employees. There is no paperwork or official termination letter that stated why she was fired. The situation is that her manager was having an affair with her coworker, and my wife was fired for not reporting it to the owner despite knowing about the situation for two months. Employee relationships were not against the rules here yet she was fired without warning just because she knew about it.
However, later that day after she was fired, her boss held a team meeting and told the rest of the employees that she was fired for threatening and harassing other employees. That she was a cancer to the workplace. This is categorically false and could cause serious harm to her reputation. The owner just wanted to cover up the affair because it's messy and took it out on my wife for not telling anyone, for being “disloyal”.
I left a 1 star review of the business without leaving a comment. Probably stupid of me to do. But the owner replied and said “Giving a 1 star review to a business who had to accept your wife's resignation 6 days ago for harassing and threatening other employees is not appropriate”. So now the owner is choosing to publish lies about my wife on a public forum. I've since deleted the review, feeling bullied and worried about my wife's reputation, but I still have a record of the comment in my email.
I'm feeling lost and afraid here. She is a bully and will not hesitate to lie and defame our family to keep her reputation intact. She tries to silence anyone who gets in her way.