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JENNGEER
Guest
I was recently fired from a government job. I was fired after filing a complaint to HR after I was finally pushed over the edge by a harassing coworker. My coworker did not care for the sound of my voice, and threated me on numerous occasions. On my last day, she became so irate that she verbally attacked me and and humiliated me by saying very nasty things in front of a group of coworkers. There were several witnesses to this inappropriate behavior, yet I was terminated because of it. To make matters worse, my supervisor is giving references to possible future employers that I am "not a team player". This is causing me to have very bad luck in looking for new employment. I have many years of good employment history, and this all seems to go out the window because of what this woman is saying about me. What can I do? I am in Florida, a "right to work state" .... in other words, "you have absolutely no protections" state and I was fired 10 days prior to my probationairy period ending. Because of this, not only did they have what they say is the legal right to fire me for any reason that they want, but I was robbed of all of the leave that I had earned up to that point which was the equivalent of about 5,000.00. Is there any way to sue for damages or slander?