Jeffroling
Junior Member
On Feb 7th I fell in the freezer due to the chaos and extreme sense of urgency that was very strongly impressed upon me by my supervisors. The ensuing attempt to get my job done immediately caused me to fall on ice while carrying metal shelves. I was not immediately hurt but I did have a sore tailbone and was able to finish my regular shift.
The next morning I woke to find my back sore but I went to work because I had a delivery at 4:45am and calling out for the day was not an option. I came to work as scheduled and during the course of unloading the truck delivery my back was further aggravated and after I completed the task I informed the shift manager that my back was hurting and I wasn't going to further inflame it and was going to be out for the day.
Approximately 3 hours later when the store manager came to work she sent a message that I needed to come to work right away and do my job. Even though there was another employee on shift able to perform these tasks. I went to work and my manager informed me they would need to do an incident report since I couldn't work and I agreed that was fine even though I'm at work working and proceeded to tell her that I would be adding my own comments to the report as to cause of the fall the previous day. I started work on my tasks and About 15 minutes later the store manager came to me in a hostile and threatening mannor proceeding to tell me what's gonna happen and there gonna send me here and there. Medical treatment was not needed and I told her that I was allowed to call in sick a day if I wasn't feeling well. And she said "no I'm not". At that time she stated that" I could just talk to Ms Pat." whose well known in our company to use bullying and intimidation to keep people "in line". I felt at that time it was best for me to go back home and take the rest of the day off. And I told her goodbye. As I turned to leave the premises I heard what I thought was her say I was fired and I turned to ask her. "Am I fired? Am I fired?" and her response was that I needed to "talk to Ms pat before coming back".
At no time did I ever indicate I needed medical attention or would be seeking any. Threatening me with my job if I didn't see a doctor is to me a form of using threats to bully over another. No mention of an incident report in the 3 hours immediately following the fall which was witnessed by two store managers. It was only after I called out the last 6 hours of my shift did they mention a incident report as away to intimidate me.
The next morning I woke to find my back sore but I went to work because I had a delivery at 4:45am and calling out for the day was not an option. I came to work as scheduled and during the course of unloading the truck delivery my back was further aggravated and after I completed the task I informed the shift manager that my back was hurting and I wasn't going to further inflame it and was going to be out for the day.
Approximately 3 hours later when the store manager came to work she sent a message that I needed to come to work right away and do my job. Even though there was another employee on shift able to perform these tasks. I went to work and my manager informed me they would need to do an incident report since I couldn't work and I agreed that was fine even though I'm at work working and proceeded to tell her that I would be adding my own comments to the report as to cause of the fall the previous day. I started work on my tasks and About 15 minutes later the store manager came to me in a hostile and threatening mannor proceeding to tell me what's gonna happen and there gonna send me here and there. Medical treatment was not needed and I told her that I was allowed to call in sick a day if I wasn't feeling well. And she said "no I'm not". At that time she stated that" I could just talk to Ms Pat." whose well known in our company to use bullying and intimidation to keep people "in line". I felt at that time it was best for me to go back home and take the rest of the day off. And I told her goodbye. As I turned to leave the premises I heard what I thought was her say I was fired and I turned to ask her. "Am I fired? Am I fired?" and her response was that I needed to "talk to Ms pat before coming back".
At no time did I ever indicate I needed medical attention or would be seeking any. Threatening me with my job if I didn't see a doctor is to me a form of using threats to bully over another. No mention of an incident report in the 3 hours immediately following the fall which was witnessed by two store managers. It was only after I called out the last 6 hours of my shift did they mention a incident report as away to intimidate me.