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I was wondering if anyone could possibly offer any advice to me. I will try to explain this as best as I can and if there are any questions please ask me.
Ok, I was employed for walmart for 16 months. I worked in the pharmacy as a technician and was very good at my job. I loved it. About 4 months ago i started to date the pharmacist. It was against the moral code that he signed when he took the position to date a tech but we kept it hidden and no one really knew. It didnt affect the way we worked, he was just as hard on me as the rest of the techs, maybe even worse at times but that is besides the point. On January 3rd, he resigned without notice, he had had an awful day at work and that night around 9 p.m. he faxed a letter of resignation to our district manager, turned in his badge and discount and as far as he was concerned he had quit, he was no longer an employee of wal-mart so we thought we were ok. On January 5th I was called into the office where my store manager and district manager were and they werent saying anything to me so I said "I'm not going to deny it, I know why I am in here" to which the store manager repied "so you admit to having a relationship with the pharmacist" I said "well to some extent, he is my friend" I asked what was going to happen now and the store manager replied that I had to be terminated. I asked even though the pharmacist had quit and she replied "yes, it is fraternization, you were fraternizing" I was shocked. We knew that if they found out he would probably be the one to leave but that they would not hopefully do anything to me. Now at this same store there was an instance where a store manager was dating an employee and he or she had the opportunity to transfer and he transferred, I should have the option to be transferred out of the pharmacy and still been able to keep my job. They are now fighting my unemployment, here I am still shocked that I have been fired and being a single mother of 2 kids I now have to unemployment coming in. I just want to know if I have a leg to stand on if I decide to contact a lawyer, can they legally fire me even thought the pharmacist quit? There are plenty of people at the store that feel it was unfair that I was fired, people I didnt even associate with, they feel I should have been transferred especially when he had quit his job and was no longer employed. Any advice is appreciated and if I am wrong on this someone please just tell me to let it go and accept it and I will move on. I just really loved my job. Thanks for listening.
I was wondering if anyone could possibly offer any advice to me. I will try to explain this as best as I can and if there are any questions please ask me.
Ok, I was employed for walmart for 16 months. I worked in the pharmacy as a technician and was very good at my job. I loved it. About 4 months ago i started to date the pharmacist. It was against the moral code that he signed when he took the position to date a tech but we kept it hidden and no one really knew. It didnt affect the way we worked, he was just as hard on me as the rest of the techs, maybe even worse at times but that is besides the point. On January 3rd, he resigned without notice, he had had an awful day at work and that night around 9 p.m. he faxed a letter of resignation to our district manager, turned in his badge and discount and as far as he was concerned he had quit, he was no longer an employee of wal-mart so we thought we were ok. On January 5th I was called into the office where my store manager and district manager were and they werent saying anything to me so I said "I'm not going to deny it, I know why I am in here" to which the store manager repied "so you admit to having a relationship with the pharmacist" I said "well to some extent, he is my friend" I asked what was going to happen now and the store manager replied that I had to be terminated. I asked even though the pharmacist had quit and she replied "yes, it is fraternization, you were fraternizing" I was shocked. We knew that if they found out he would probably be the one to leave but that they would not hopefully do anything to me. Now at this same store there was an instance where a store manager was dating an employee and he or she had the opportunity to transfer and he transferred, I should have the option to be transferred out of the pharmacy and still been able to keep my job. They are now fighting my unemployment, here I am still shocked that I have been fired and being a single mother of 2 kids I now have to unemployment coming in. I just want to know if I have a leg to stand on if I decide to contact a lawyer, can they legally fire me even thought the pharmacist quit? There are plenty of people at the store that feel it was unfair that I was fired, people I didnt even associate with, they feel I should have been transferred especially when he had quit his job and was no longer employed. Any advice is appreciated and if I am wrong on this someone please just tell me to let it go and accept it and I will move on. I just really loved my job. Thanks for listening.