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What is the name of your state? New York
Next week is my appeal hearing and I would like to make sure that I am as prepared as possible. Unfortunately, I have not been about to find answers to the specifics of this case and I would like to try my best to display those issues here in hopes of a reply.
Basically I felt very rushed by the claims examiner I spoke with about my claim and any events that I tried to speak about were cut off abruptly. The only thing that was significant was the exact reason that I put in my two weeks and only the occurrence that happened that day to make me leave. This is understandable, but there were months of events that lead to my decision. Though to me these seem very significant I would like to know what legal bearing they have since the claims examiner would not let me finish a sentence when I tried to speak about them.
During the last few months that I worked for this company I was promoted and moved to the business sales division. Now, this company had retail and a corporate side that worked under the same roof and in the same space. The General Manager of the entire store had a personal problem with our department and rendered my direct manager unless to make his own management decisions. He also verbally abused us and made our daily work routines completely ineffective. This issue was brought up to the local HR in our store and eventually was brought to a corporate level. Multiple meetings were made to no resolve. This is also far from the first time that this manager had HR issues for abuse in this store. Now, the fact that we were on a commission base didn’t help with these sorts of issues happening since it affected our paychecks directly. With an “open door” policy, myself and another on my team tried our best to fix the issues to return to the working environment we were used to. In contacting the general manager directly I was chastised and embarrassed in front of my peers. With the matters still in the air there were relocation efforts in the works for myself to be positioned at another store. In the middle of all of this there was a restructure at corporate headquarters and the human resource person that was helping us directly was lost. Also, our local HR’s position was resolved and was really the only one we could trust in the store to talk about issues with without a parade from management talking among themselves about it.
Besides any issues with our General Manager is was also discovered that my direct manager and other employees was smoking weed all day on the job and that answered my questions about the dysfunction in my department. With being unsuccessful with HR in the past we were hesitant to start any more trouble and tried to work through it. I was depressed, hurt, and angry and put in my two weeks. At this point I really wish I didn’t but I wasn’t thinking very clearly about it, I knew I was unhealthy working in those conditions. After I left someone decided to turn them in to HR and it was discovered that the general manager told everyone in the store about it. This again showed to me how ridiculous they all were and again reminded me why I felt there was no one to turn to there. One of the workers was very hostile and I feared for my well being. There is a book I could write but I don’t know what is significant and what it not.
To me, the events prior to my putting in my two weeks had everything to do with why I left but the Dept. of Labor felt different and denied me benefits. I had to move back home with the loss of money and had to quit college. I didn’t quit just for the sake of doing it because there was a lot at stake. It states that if you voluntarily quit that you have to prove “good cause” and I attempted to do so but I am unsure what to do. I am just as confused writing this as you may be reading it but I hope someone can help shed some light. If anything needs to be clarified I will be happy to do so. Thank you all for your time.
I also would like to add that I am going back to work for this company, just at a different store and location.
Next week is my appeal hearing and I would like to make sure that I am as prepared as possible. Unfortunately, I have not been about to find answers to the specifics of this case and I would like to try my best to display those issues here in hopes of a reply.
Basically I felt very rushed by the claims examiner I spoke with about my claim and any events that I tried to speak about were cut off abruptly. The only thing that was significant was the exact reason that I put in my two weeks and only the occurrence that happened that day to make me leave. This is understandable, but there were months of events that lead to my decision. Though to me these seem very significant I would like to know what legal bearing they have since the claims examiner would not let me finish a sentence when I tried to speak about them.
During the last few months that I worked for this company I was promoted and moved to the business sales division. Now, this company had retail and a corporate side that worked under the same roof and in the same space. The General Manager of the entire store had a personal problem with our department and rendered my direct manager unless to make his own management decisions. He also verbally abused us and made our daily work routines completely ineffective. This issue was brought up to the local HR in our store and eventually was brought to a corporate level. Multiple meetings were made to no resolve. This is also far from the first time that this manager had HR issues for abuse in this store. Now, the fact that we were on a commission base didn’t help with these sorts of issues happening since it affected our paychecks directly. With an “open door” policy, myself and another on my team tried our best to fix the issues to return to the working environment we were used to. In contacting the general manager directly I was chastised and embarrassed in front of my peers. With the matters still in the air there were relocation efforts in the works for myself to be positioned at another store. In the middle of all of this there was a restructure at corporate headquarters and the human resource person that was helping us directly was lost. Also, our local HR’s position was resolved and was really the only one we could trust in the store to talk about issues with without a parade from management talking among themselves about it.
Besides any issues with our General Manager is was also discovered that my direct manager and other employees was smoking weed all day on the job and that answered my questions about the dysfunction in my department. With being unsuccessful with HR in the past we were hesitant to start any more trouble and tried to work through it. I was depressed, hurt, and angry and put in my two weeks. At this point I really wish I didn’t but I wasn’t thinking very clearly about it, I knew I was unhealthy working in those conditions. After I left someone decided to turn them in to HR and it was discovered that the general manager told everyone in the store about it. This again showed to me how ridiculous they all were and again reminded me why I felt there was no one to turn to there. One of the workers was very hostile and I feared for my well being. There is a book I could write but I don’t know what is significant and what it not.
To me, the events prior to my putting in my two weeks had everything to do with why I left but the Dept. of Labor felt different and denied me benefits. I had to move back home with the loss of money and had to quit college. I didn’t quit just for the sake of doing it because there was a lot at stake. It states that if you voluntarily quit that you have to prove “good cause” and I attempted to do so but I am unsure what to do. I am just as confused writing this as you may be reading it but I hope someone can help shed some light. If anything needs to be clarified I will be happy to do so. Thank you all for your time.
I also would like to add that I am going back to work for this company, just at a different store and location.