What is the name of your state? Arizona
Hello,
On April 6th, I filed a complaint to HR about my Manager. This complaint consisted of a track record dating back to December 2nd, 2019 when it all initially started. Basically, a four paragraph email to HR. To summarize, I was seeing a co-worker who then became Assistant Manager at the time and our Manager knew about it and was okay with it as long as we kept work and personal life separated. The week before Christmas, he decided to take it off. Us working in a mall, that was the busiest week of the year and it left her to work insane amounts of overtime which ended up overwhelming her. She expressed that to him via text which he took it personal and immediately went to our Regional Director and told him we were seeing each other, just to get her moved to another location since that's what would make it 100% possible for him. So, she ended up getting moved and we still remained seeing each other.
It then became a problem where he was continuously bullying me in regards to her. He constantly said hateful things about her and pretty much anything he could say to make me stop being friends with her. I guess that was his way of "looking out for me" as I went to him outside of work about some relationship problems since he was the only person I was close to. Anyway, aside from bullying me, he's made a few sexual remarks to her directly while she worked there and also at a store outing that she made clear both times it made her uncomfortable. He has also explicitly made fun of other employees weight to their face along with appearance in general. This all eventually built up on both of us over time making us finally step forward and report it to HR.
They reached out to her and I immediately and started an investigation, asked for screenshots of stuff that was said by my manager and so on which I provided but she couldn't as it was stuff he verbally said. After about 6 days, I get a call from HR saying that they completed the investigation and while they can't go into details, that they "talked to him." My whole question is that how is it he got away with a slap on the wrist when literally everything that we reported falls under Harassment/Sexual Harassment. Those exact remarks and jokes about other people's appearances are in that category verbatim. Knowing the circumstances and how uncomfortable she is, they also still schedule him to fill in at her store while this pandemic stuff is still going on. I don't get it. I've read about Corporate Lawyers and whatnot and it states the same thing about how serious those offenses are. It appears they weren't taken serious in our situation.
Thoughts?
Hello,
On April 6th, I filed a complaint to HR about my Manager. This complaint consisted of a track record dating back to December 2nd, 2019 when it all initially started. Basically, a four paragraph email to HR. To summarize, I was seeing a co-worker who then became Assistant Manager at the time and our Manager knew about it and was okay with it as long as we kept work and personal life separated. The week before Christmas, he decided to take it off. Us working in a mall, that was the busiest week of the year and it left her to work insane amounts of overtime which ended up overwhelming her. She expressed that to him via text which he took it personal and immediately went to our Regional Director and told him we were seeing each other, just to get her moved to another location since that's what would make it 100% possible for him. So, she ended up getting moved and we still remained seeing each other.
It then became a problem where he was continuously bullying me in regards to her. He constantly said hateful things about her and pretty much anything he could say to make me stop being friends with her. I guess that was his way of "looking out for me" as I went to him outside of work about some relationship problems since he was the only person I was close to. Anyway, aside from bullying me, he's made a few sexual remarks to her directly while she worked there and also at a store outing that she made clear both times it made her uncomfortable. He has also explicitly made fun of other employees weight to their face along with appearance in general. This all eventually built up on both of us over time making us finally step forward and report it to HR.
They reached out to her and I immediately and started an investigation, asked for screenshots of stuff that was said by my manager and so on which I provided but she couldn't as it was stuff he verbally said. After about 6 days, I get a call from HR saying that they completed the investigation and while they can't go into details, that they "talked to him." My whole question is that how is it he got away with a slap on the wrist when literally everything that we reported falls under Harassment/Sexual Harassment. Those exact remarks and jokes about other people's appearances are in that category verbatim. Knowing the circumstances and how uncomfortable she is, they also still schedule him to fill in at her store while this pandemic stuff is still going on. I don't get it. I've read about Corporate Lawyers and whatnot and it states the same thing about how serious those offenses are. It appears they weren't taken serious in our situation.
Thoughts?