Re: A Set Up

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Be advised that in today's litigation prone society,
employers seeking to get rid of certain employees may be
inclined to set up a trail of negative work performance
reviews, complaints and the like. See a recent businessweek
article discussing the cost of law suits based on employment
discrimination to understand the reasons behind it. The
article reveals that companies must be especially careful
with employees who fall into certain protected categories on
the basis of their age, disability, orientation, being
complainers, etc. While I doubt you are being purposely set
up, an employer may want to establish a poor performance
record in order to avoid costly law suits later.

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On 4/27/07, Battered in PA wrote:
> I work as a shipper for a local manufacturer (the largest
> employer in my County). Recently, my supervisor has been
> writing up employees and suspending without pay for
> incorrect pallett loading and inventory scanning. I am a
> 42 yo wht male with 18 years of employment at the
> company. My coworker is a wht male in his late 40's with
> 19 years under his belt. Both of us have been singled out
> for over a year. My cooworker recently took a
> reassignment to get away from the boss. We think we are
> being set up. Last week, I was loading a truck. I
> noticed a pallet was scanned under my id# and loaded on
> the wrong truck. I told the personnel director that I
> thought it was a set up. Could her verify that the
> scanning did not come from my gun. He made a million
> excuses and said he would look into the situation. The
> next day my boss told me IT looked into my issue and
> determinied there was no way to tell which gun scanned the
> pallet. Do I have any recourse if these sort of "errors"
> keep occuring and I get fired? A younger workforce
> definiltely costs the company less in wages and benefits.

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