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james100
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What is the name of your state? North Carolina.
Brief: Can anyone offer advice regarding the following.
" a female co-worker of mine took to the habit of provoking "customers, commissioned sales agents, and end-users for my company's products" into harrassing me over approximately a 15 month period. This harrassment was of a very serious nature including threats of violence. It included "anonymous" death threats left for me over my company voice mail system. In all over 16 face to face confrontations occurred and several "voice mail" threats.
What was "unique" was that none of the people I was harrassed by "knew" me nor did I work with them in any capacity. I managed the female co-worker who in turn worked with this group of people who harrassed me.
The last such confrontation took place in a Minneapolis Hotel on a Sunday in the evening. This "last" event was carried out by two of my supervisors ( Zone Manager and VP of sales). These two managers were new to the company and barely knew me. I had had no direct confrontation with them at any time previous.
I worked for this company for 11 years without a single confrontation of any kind inside or outside of the company.
This last event took place outside the company headquarters, took place on a Sunday evening and there was no representative from Human Resources present. My only break was that the VP of Sales told me that a 3rd party was responsible for motivating his actions toward me. And he refused to reveal the persons name. In all this "interogation" lasted over 2 hours. I demanded that they stop. They in turn threatened me if I did not continue. Both superiors were in a highly emotional state. This was exactly the emotional state that all my previous attackers had exhibited. All these attacks were identical to each other. Only the players were interchangeable.
[The one single connection to all these players was the female co-worker who by the way "never said a word" during this entire period. This female "knows" that I know and has made many many post manuvers in an attempt to extricate herself from it.]
The next morning these two supervisors came to their senses, and realizing what they had done the night before they went into the corporate headquarters and "doctored" up an "agenda" of "performance issues" and copied Human Resources. They had a ficticious meeting occur on Monday and not Sunday.
The problem was that "no meeting like this ever took place"! The actual event occurred the night before at this Mpls hotel and had "nothing" to do with performance. Anyone from my company who looked into the matter 'read" this false document and said "looks okay to me, your just a bad guy who had to go".
I was fired for "insubordination" and my company refuses to investigate the matter. They keep refering to the "fake memorandum" that was written the morning after. It is a fraud written to "cover up" for two supervisors who did something on angry impusle and rage that they should not have done.
It was only after this last event occurred when I started to realize how similiar "all these unprovoked attacks" had been.
This is the worst case of harrassment I have ever seen. The fact that it was done by "proxy" made it more complex to detect or even understand as it was happening.
My industry was/is one of great turmoil and is ripe for someone to "push" the right buttons and get an extreme response.
Recently a major customer Royal Ahold has been under SEC investigation for ENRON type accounting fraud. This was the environment that my co-worker used to provoke the players. There is alot of corruption and collusion between suppliers, brokers and distributors. Hence the field is ripe for someone to single out another person within this context.
What can I do? What lawyer would help? It is a great case with a large potential judgement. It doesnt however fit with the typical "sex, race, age" . It would also take work but the VP who carried out the last attack is the key person. He would tell the truth under pressure. Once he told the truth about my female co-worker the rest would flow.
Jim H.
Brief: Can anyone offer advice regarding the following.
" a female co-worker of mine took to the habit of provoking "customers, commissioned sales agents, and end-users for my company's products" into harrassing me over approximately a 15 month period. This harrassment was of a very serious nature including threats of violence. It included "anonymous" death threats left for me over my company voice mail system. In all over 16 face to face confrontations occurred and several "voice mail" threats.
What was "unique" was that none of the people I was harrassed by "knew" me nor did I work with them in any capacity. I managed the female co-worker who in turn worked with this group of people who harrassed me.
The last such confrontation took place in a Minneapolis Hotel on a Sunday in the evening. This "last" event was carried out by two of my supervisors ( Zone Manager and VP of sales). These two managers were new to the company and barely knew me. I had had no direct confrontation with them at any time previous.
I worked for this company for 11 years without a single confrontation of any kind inside or outside of the company.
This last event took place outside the company headquarters, took place on a Sunday evening and there was no representative from Human Resources present. My only break was that the VP of Sales told me that a 3rd party was responsible for motivating his actions toward me. And he refused to reveal the persons name. In all this "interogation" lasted over 2 hours. I demanded that they stop. They in turn threatened me if I did not continue. Both superiors were in a highly emotional state. This was exactly the emotional state that all my previous attackers had exhibited. All these attacks were identical to each other. Only the players were interchangeable.
[The one single connection to all these players was the female co-worker who by the way "never said a word" during this entire period. This female "knows" that I know and has made many many post manuvers in an attempt to extricate herself from it.]
The next morning these two supervisors came to their senses, and realizing what they had done the night before they went into the corporate headquarters and "doctored" up an "agenda" of "performance issues" and copied Human Resources. They had a ficticious meeting occur on Monday and not Sunday.
The problem was that "no meeting like this ever took place"! The actual event occurred the night before at this Mpls hotel and had "nothing" to do with performance. Anyone from my company who looked into the matter 'read" this false document and said "looks okay to me, your just a bad guy who had to go".
I was fired for "insubordination" and my company refuses to investigate the matter. They keep refering to the "fake memorandum" that was written the morning after. It is a fraud written to "cover up" for two supervisors who did something on angry impusle and rage that they should not have done.
It was only after this last event occurred when I started to realize how similiar "all these unprovoked attacks" had been.
This is the worst case of harrassment I have ever seen. The fact that it was done by "proxy" made it more complex to detect or even understand as it was happening.
My industry was/is one of great turmoil and is ripe for someone to "push" the right buttons and get an extreme response.
Recently a major customer Royal Ahold has been under SEC investigation for ENRON type accounting fraud. This was the environment that my co-worker used to provoke the players. There is alot of corruption and collusion between suppliers, brokers and distributors. Hence the field is ripe for someone to single out another person within this context.
What can I do? What lawyer would help? It is a great case with a large potential judgement. It doesnt however fit with the typical "sex, race, age" . It would also take work but the VP who carried out the last attack is the key person. He would tell the truth under pressure. Once he told the truth about my female co-worker the rest would flow.
Jim H.