Hey y'all I had a quick question.
Is there any legal action that I can take against a company who forced me to peer train new hires without taking the mandatory certification test? We only had three people there at the time one being the bay lead and the other being another recent hire. The lead was always busy with stuff. My supervisor would come up to me to check on me. He was wondering why I was just sitting around not doing anything, and I told him that I am making sure that the new hire is able to get his stuff signed off for the tools he needed to be certified on. At one point I said to him that I was never certified for training, and he told me “Well, you have been trained before, so just do that in reverse” which is horrible advice for a number of reasons. I left around the end of December, after trying to work out a scholarship plan with my company, who wanted a minimum of 20 hours from me when I went back to school. I decided it wasn't worth it and I'm glad because I have no idea if I was going to be able to pass my classes if I did that. Breaks were also supposed to be 15 minutes from when you got out of the cleanroom to when you got back in (so about 25 minutes or 40 for lunch over all with 30 min for unpaid). However, I was told to make them all 40 by my trainer since they “didn't care” and then we got an email about taking breaks “according to the spec”. When I asked what exactly that meant, my supervisor told me “read the spec”. This also did not change how anyone took breaks at all by the way, and some people would also be out there for like and hour to an hour and a half (which like fair) but it just felt like there were a lot of double standards there.
There were also other company violations that happened quite often as well, such as being told to fudge air quality data, which I was adamantly against and argued a lot about. We were also in a cleanroom environment and wore overalls and hoods that had masks on them. about half of the people would have the mask pulled below their nose which is not good for a) a clean room environment and b) covid pandemic. The last thing that I can think of is people using other peoples credentials to run tools that they are not certified on. This made it show that one person had a run a lot of tools, even if he was absent from work.
I am not exactly sure what to do as I do not have any strong evidence and most of this is just hearsay unfortunately. But any sort of advice would be greatly appreciated.