Back in August I had a run-in with a contractor at work who, after blaming all of my company's short-comings on me, actually said he wanted to kick my a$$. Who cares that they problems are at the corporate level and I was only in charge of one facility. Of course, I reported it to HR. Two weeks later, it happens again, and I report again.

One week later, the HR Director tells me that since he's not one of our company's employees that she's not going to do anything and that I need to go to his employer if I want to complain.

One week later, $hit hits the fan between the two companies and I get a phone call from my boss. I was told that I wasn't communicating effectively with this man and that I was being removed from my position. I could have temporary hours as an assistant manager at a facility that would probably double my commute.

I resigned and filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission only to have a wait a month for my first meeting with them. Now its two days before Thanksgiving, but they agree that I have a legitimate complaint so it is officially filed. So the next step is to inform the company and give them the option to mediate or fight the complaint.

I still haven't heard what the company's intentions are, but at least I was able to send in a copy of the paperwork I got from the EEOC and I'm finally collecting Unemployment.

But man, these baby steps are killing me.

I feel your pain, Angie.

1. No fear.
Do not let them push you around.
Be polite. Be Professional. But be firm.

2. Failure is not an option.
Demand your job back. (even IF you WON'T take it.)
(can't see how I would)
Just out of General Principal.

3. You Deserve a job that will appreciate you
rather than those mean little self-serving Butt-Heads

I'm not going to demand my job back, I'm going to demand that they pay for me to go back to school.

Because it's gone to the EEOC we are talking monetary settlement already. All I have to do is figure how much school will cost me (I'm not going for a full degree) and use that as my bottom line.

This is why I despise Corporate America. You are not the "valuable employee" they claim you are, you're just a number to them.

And we all know, numbers are all they care about....just not the human kind.

If that's the case they would have kept me. I was making money for them like that facility had never seen before. I was consistantly hitting 136% of projected revenues.

You should have b*tch slapped him for fun.

The only reason its past tense because I don't work for them any more. That facility is still running strong because of the changes I implemented