omgprotoss
Junior Member
I live in WA. I was wondering if I have any legal recourse for something that happened to me at work. I've been working there for about 4 pleasant years with no major issues. But now it seems there have been issues, so I've been attempting to get as much of this documented as possible so I can see what my options are, if any. I work in a food business, largely catering oriented. I wash everything that goes in and out for caterings. For the last 4 years I've been working the majority of the hours in my position, and during the winter time I'm usually the only person in the company doing what I do.
This all starts off with a supervisor of mine, we'll call him P. He's a handyman who was initially hired onto the company as a contractor. After some length of time, a lot of responsibilities in the catering sector have begun to fall into his lap - including scheduling of the workers at the warehouse (which has largely just been me, my brother, and a handful of other workers). I've been told by one of three co-owners, M., that another co-owner, K., oversees the scheduling and I'm to report to her for my scheduling requests. I've been doing that for the most of my time with the company with no issue. Up until the last year or so, P. handles my schedule (vaguely). P., who's been written up for inappropriately referring to coworkers beneath him in the past, began interacting with me in an inappropriate manner two months ago, and as a result, I made a request to be kept on for the weekends so I may seek other full-time job accommodations. I said they had two weeks to accommodate my request, in case they couldn't do it sooner. I also said if my request to be kept on the schedule for the weekends was going to be trouble, I'd need to be known at that point so I can get another immediate job so I can sustain myself while I get my A+ certification and get hired on elsewhere. They didn't said there were any problems with my request.
Two months later, my hours (as well as my brother's) are being taken away on the weekend in favor for new employees. He then justifies his scheduling decision by saying my request put him in a tough spot so he had to hire people which needed to take the hours which I previously requested. I feel like this was a complete misrepresentation, as well as retaliation for requesting a different schedule due to feeling inappropriately communicated to in the workplace. He's also not offering any way to gain more hours in my position other than the 2-hours of work per week they're now giving me. I feel like this is ridiculous, and completely devalues the 4 years of good work I've done for the company. Is there anything I can do legally? I'm trying to get this solved within the company but P. is refusing to communicate me in writing any further, making it difficult to document our interactions any further.
If there's nothing I can do - is it legal for me to start a blog containing the name of the company in the domain name, detailing true things about my experiences with the company that may concern the public (such as sanitary concerns)?
There's a lot of detail behind this but I tried to condense it - I'll give more details if you guys think there's anything wrong being done to me legally.
This all starts off with a supervisor of mine, we'll call him P. He's a handyman who was initially hired onto the company as a contractor. After some length of time, a lot of responsibilities in the catering sector have begun to fall into his lap - including scheduling of the workers at the warehouse (which has largely just been me, my brother, and a handful of other workers). I've been told by one of three co-owners, M., that another co-owner, K., oversees the scheduling and I'm to report to her for my scheduling requests. I've been doing that for the most of my time with the company with no issue. Up until the last year or so, P. handles my schedule (vaguely). P., who's been written up for inappropriately referring to coworkers beneath him in the past, began interacting with me in an inappropriate manner two months ago, and as a result, I made a request to be kept on for the weekends so I may seek other full-time job accommodations. I said they had two weeks to accommodate my request, in case they couldn't do it sooner. I also said if my request to be kept on the schedule for the weekends was going to be trouble, I'd need to be known at that point so I can get another immediate job so I can sustain myself while I get my A+ certification and get hired on elsewhere. They didn't said there were any problems with my request.
Two months later, my hours (as well as my brother's) are being taken away on the weekend in favor for new employees. He then justifies his scheduling decision by saying my request put him in a tough spot so he had to hire people which needed to take the hours which I previously requested. I feel like this was a complete misrepresentation, as well as retaliation for requesting a different schedule due to feeling inappropriately communicated to in the workplace. He's also not offering any way to gain more hours in my position other than the 2-hours of work per week they're now giving me. I feel like this is ridiculous, and completely devalues the 4 years of good work I've done for the company. Is there anything I can do legally? I'm trying to get this solved within the company but P. is refusing to communicate me in writing any further, making it difficult to document our interactions any further.
If there's nothing I can do - is it legal for me to start a blog containing the name of the company in the domain name, detailing true things about my experiences with the company that may concern the public (such as sanitary concerns)?
There's a lot of detail behind this but I tried to condense it - I'll give more details if you guys think there's anything wrong being done to me legally.