After years of constant sexually harassment, I got the courage to complaint to HR. I provided a list of witnesses and a tape recording on which my supervisor promised me a promotion to a director in exchange for my silence. However, HR concluded that there was no sexual harassment, only a “miscommunication.” To this end, I filed with a complaint with EEOC.
Long story short, I called the investigator and he first tried to downplay my complaint. He, then, said I should try to settle and that he would contact my employer. He called back a day later saying they offered $4,000. Because I refused the money, the investigator got upset and said I should “fight them forever.” When I asked for my employer’s position statement, he refused to give it to me, saying: “things can’t be a tit for tat.” When I asked him whether he had read my complaint, he said no…”there is too much information..there is no real way to read all that stuff.” Note: all of this was caught on tape.
After the above took place and some time passed, EEOC dismissed my case saying that I waited too long to file my complaint. I got a right to sue letter, but because I couldn’t find an attorney, the 90-days have passed.
To make matters worse, my job laid me off citing funding cuts. I am hurting. What other recourse do I have? Since I have the tape recording of the EEOC investigator, should I expose him as well as my employer? I know I can expose them in the media, but that is short live. Anyone else with similar experience with EEOC?
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I work for a city and my department suffers from a lot of issues, primarily incompetants and harrassment from upper management and colleagues. Now, we have attempted to go to upper management and even human resources to solve the problem, but have failed. I finally decided to write city council, because I heard someone from another city did so and they helped them. I explained to the council that I went through the proper channels, going to management and human resources and it didn’t help. It wasn’t a hate letter, but moreso a letter addressing concerns. I wrote about a team leader, manager, and assistant director. I’m just a regular worker. I didn’t straight complain about them all, I noted the good things about them and the bad things. My question is can I get fired or harrassed for trying to make the workplace a safer and healthier place to be at? I got a job that ended up with duties that were different from those in the job description. OK. That happens. I ended up having to do a lot of mindless data entry. I had pain in my dominant arm when I started but figured it would be no big deal, until I found out I had to do all this mindless data entry stuff. I did it and found I could get through 3-4 hours a day tops until the pain got too severe. I told the supervisor. She said, ‘Doesn’t matter. We all work in pain around here.’ I finally got a diagnosis of 3 nerve tumors in my wrist, forearm, & elbow. Told the ‘human resources’ director my problem. that I had a health issue recently diagnosed & I was not doing work in my job description and doing it to the point where the pain was debilitating. She said, “That’s odd. We have plenty of employees with arm problems and they can do data entry more than 4 hours a day.” That was it as far as the supervisor and HR person were concerned. Would you go to a ‘higher up’ or just quit? |
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