jason_yomama84
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Hello,
As of Tuesday 8/18/09 I was suspended from work for serious charges as my boss put it. Yesterday I reported to the office for a conference call with the head of human resources and found out the charges were about sexual harassment on an associate I work with. So here is my story. There is an associate I work with as I've mentioned above. She has accused me of making sexual advances toward her,if not more in the work place. She says she has 4 witness' that witnessed these events at work. Although from personally being there,none of these witness' were ever around when she spoke to me when passed through that area on a patrol or to respond to a call in that area. As of lately,rumors have spread very quickly through the store about the two of us having sex,me being obsessed with her,constantly asking her out on dates,and the list goes on. So I began ignoring her and any calls she made completely. Soon after,it got to the point where whenever she ran into on patrol,she would ask questions like,have I done something wrong to you?, why don't you talk to me?, What happened to you and why have you changed? I have reported every one of these incidents to my fellow LP officers in the camera room every time It happened. From that point on, she started staring at me every time I passed by or was in the area. So I asked my fellow LPO to watch her on the camera,he said "dude,this is starting to look like border line obsession." The more I ignored her the harder she tried to get my attention. So when things didn't go her way,she played the sexual harassment card. So,I denied all accusations at my meeting and they thought It was a load of B.S. After doing a little investigating of my own,I found out not only was she married,but as done this to few LP officers before I got there. So she's been known for doing this. As for her witness' I is her sister-in-law and the other 3 are very good friends of hers and knew about this as well and are lying for her now. As for my company,which just happens to be Securitas. This has happened to a friend of mine a few months ago. They took the same steps with him even though the women both consented to the sexual joking. They fired him for sexual harassment ,but when he got the letter of termination,it never once mentioned that was there reason for termination but it's on his record now. And now the same thing is being done to me. the company never did an investigation on him and probably won't with me even though I have quite a bit of proof. And my last but not least my company plays favorites and I don't think it's fair when I am literally the only African-American male working in the entire store. So my question is,since I will be terminated very soon from sexual harassment,do I have enough to put up a fight in the matter and is this something that may be worth pursuing in court? This has gone for too long and something needs to be done about it since our company won't defend us.
Thanks in advance for your answers
As of Tuesday 8/18/09 I was suspended from work for serious charges as my boss put it. Yesterday I reported to the office for a conference call with the head of human resources and found out the charges were about sexual harassment on an associate I work with. So here is my story. There is an associate I work with as I've mentioned above. She has accused me of making sexual advances toward her,if not more in the work place. She says she has 4 witness' that witnessed these events at work. Although from personally being there,none of these witness' were ever around when she spoke to me when passed through that area on a patrol or to respond to a call in that area. As of lately,rumors have spread very quickly through the store about the two of us having sex,me being obsessed with her,constantly asking her out on dates,and the list goes on. So I began ignoring her and any calls she made completely. Soon after,it got to the point where whenever she ran into on patrol,she would ask questions like,have I done something wrong to you?, why don't you talk to me?, What happened to you and why have you changed? I have reported every one of these incidents to my fellow LP officers in the camera room every time It happened. From that point on, she started staring at me every time I passed by or was in the area. So I asked my fellow LPO to watch her on the camera,he said "dude,this is starting to look like border line obsession." The more I ignored her the harder she tried to get my attention. So when things didn't go her way,she played the sexual harassment card. So,I denied all accusations at my meeting and they thought It was a load of B.S. After doing a little investigating of my own,I found out not only was she married,but as done this to few LP officers before I got there. So she's been known for doing this. As for her witness' I is her sister-in-law and the other 3 are very good friends of hers and knew about this as well and are lying for her now. As for my company,which just happens to be Securitas. This has happened to a friend of mine a few months ago. They took the same steps with him even though the women both consented to the sexual joking. They fired him for sexual harassment ,but when he got the letter of termination,it never once mentioned that was there reason for termination but it's on his record now. And now the same thing is being done to me. the company never did an investigation on him and probably won't with me even though I have quite a bit of proof. And my last but not least my company plays favorites and I don't think it's fair when I am literally the only African-American male working in the entire store. So my question is,since I will be terminated very soon from sexual harassment,do I have enough to put up a fight in the matter and is this something that may be worth pursuing in court? This has gone for too long and something needs to be done about it since our company won't defend us.
Thanks in advance for your answers