MilocyWilleford
Junior Member
What is the name of your state?undefined During a staff meeting, our manager stated that the employee's had not been getting all of their paperwork done during work hours and that business was starting to pick up. She said word for word that the paperwork needed to get done on our own time if we could not get it done in the time she had schedualed for us to be at work. She said she didn't care if we had to stay in from lunch or at home on our own time, JUST GET IT DONE. I witnessed an employee taking her files home that night to get caught up. I wasn't behind, so I didn't. I felt guilty because that night I didn't feel like part of the "TEAM" we always we working on in staff meetings so the next evening I took my work home to get ahead for the next day since I wasn't behind. I felt so good getting ahead only to be called in the next afternoon to an office space where our part time manager was seated. The first thing out of her mouth was "I need a letter of resignation." I was confused and asked why. She went on to tell me I breached company policy for taking home confidential information about clients. First of all, there was nothing different in the information that I took home than the other employees did. I told her that I was just trying to get ahead like she had asked. She told me what the letter had to say and I wrote it. I had to write three different letters until they were to her perfection. This was humiliating and i began to cry and plead that I meant no harm and that I loved my job. I asked her to shut the door because people could hear us and see us when walking down the hall. I was so embarrassed. I asked her why I needed to resign and she said she could fire me, but that if I used them on my resume, she wouls have to tell anyone calling for a reference that I was fired for breach of company policy. ILLEGAL MUCH??? She said it would be "better for me" if I resigned so she could tell job prospects that I resigned for "personal" reseans. Shoudl I get a lawyer? I feel this situation was a cop out to fire me because I had been having problems the week before with my babysitter. They kept my job in the local paper and interviewed for my position the entire time I worked there. I feel they found someone with no "baggage" possibly to replace me and just waited for the first situation. I feel I could have been warned even written up...not fired(forced to resign). Oh yeah, and when I asked her if she would please show me in the policy manual the policy I "breached". SHe said no it didn't matter. It was too late for that. I simply told her I needed to see it to prove to myself that I knew better since I had read the policies many times and could remember nothing of the sort. I was denied the right to see it. HELP ME!
