Do I have any Legal Grounds

[ep82]

ok i think i got it, now one of the assistant managers who helped me to get hired into the company suggested to do the following


call the manager of the store tomorrow and explain to her my side of the storie, and express myself confidency that i have of my actions that took about on that day and ask her that if they still believe they are in their correctness that they should proceed to investigate the matter further, by checking the surveillance vids and all that stuff.

o and another thing the reason i have not yet brought this to the managers attention is because she was on vacation

should i just let it go and learn about this or do what my friend the assistant manager told me

 

[cbg]

It wouldn't do any harm to make that call, in my opinion.

However, keep in mind a couple of things:

1.) They have no legal obligation to investigate further
2.) If they do investigate further, they have no legal obligation to give you your job back regardless of what they find.

If they do not seem willing to take this any further, or if they do but do not seem willing to give you your job back (and with all due respect, I would not be inclined to hire back an employee who doesn't bother to read the schedule properly and who can't balance his drawer so that it comes up short) THEN you give up gracefully, learn from the experience, and look for a new job.

Telling the corporate office what happened is NOT broadcasting and/or publishing a false statement that would give you a defamation claim. As I said, give up on that whole idea. The jackass who suggested it doesn't know what the elements of a defamation claim are or he wouldn't have suggested it in the first place. YOU DO NOT HAVE A DEFAMATION CLAIM.

 

[ep82]

Ok, I made the call and i did not get any responses to what i had to say. She just said ok, and thats it.


cbq, i thank you for your advice which was very valuable and now my confidency is more high every time i go out looking out for a job knowing what could happen and how i might be prepared in case i get terminated or fired.

So from here on, the next time i get hired, i will go to my workplace to work and take orders from the boss and at no time talk back or say "no i will not do this or that, nor express to the boss how wrong that task is"

and for those that understand the above as "now hes going to be a brown noser" well your wrong cuz now im understanding little by little how the work place functions from an employee position.

 

[cbg]

I'm glad I was able to help. Hope things go well for you.

 

[oliver3858]

This "at will" law is for the birds in some cases! My former employer was wrong, I know it and so do they! Thats why I am not there, they could not fire me, but they could attempt to force me to go outside of agreemnets and say "I abandoned my job" what a joke! This law needs to be taken to congress. I understand the law to an extent, however it makes things far to easy to cover up wrong doing. Living in a world of lies! Thats what this law allows! Honestly immigrants have more protection than the citizens of the US do!

 

[pattytx]

OK, Oliver, drop the bully pulpit speech. You're not going to find any takers here.