Posted by disgusted on 8/22/08

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So, being tired of hearing about the way our store manager
spoke to a coworker I wrote an annon. letter to our parent
companies executive v. p. (couple of notes here) harrased
employee is gay male-offending manager is male. district
manager is male and has office inside the store that this
took place in. - the tight knit friendship between
district and store managers is why I chose to jump as high
up as possible to make sure it didn't get "handled"
incorrectly.

In the meantime I left the accounting dept. to return to
my previous position on the floor. I knew since this was
my wish that I would be giving up the 2 pay raises I had
aquired for going to the dept. 3 1/2 yrs prior. this
totaled 70cents and hour diff.

It took the company 2 months before they changed the pay
rate. When it happened the district manager had a fit at
my HR person because she changed it by the .70 and he
decided to make it more. He had her change it down by
$3.55 an hour instead of the .70cents.

This just happened to be at the same time the district
manager was notified by exectutive vp that the harrasement
had been filed.

The Dm notified the store manager and allowed him to have
a closed door meeting alone with the harrassee. The
harrassee asked DM for a private mtg. which was agreed to
then on the day of mtg. DM calls in and tells asst. he
wont be in because it was nice out and he wanted to go
golf with... store manager.

so when I get my pay stub I see that my pay rate is
horridly wrong. Store manager says- oh I knew you would
come see me when you got your pay stub. We had a bit of a
discussion- with HR present. It was determined that the
pay rate change was not correct and should not have been
done.

The store manager took a very long time working on this.
DM is constantly "unavailable" and yet he is ONLY one who
can undo this. It has been 2 months since the pay cut and
harrassement notification. My pay isn't fixed and the
victim still hasn't had a mtg with DM and is forced to
continue to work with the store manager. Can't afford to
leave the job, not that he should have to.

So, my guess here is that DM and/or store manger figured
out who sent the letter and all this is backlash for it.
Either way they are not fixing my pay. What are my options
here? Is it easier to take them up on just the pay problem
or believe that it is backlash and take them up on that?

So complicated and every lawyer I find for employement law
only represents employers. No wonder no one ever wants to
file harrasement charges.

Thanks for any help or info you can give.

Re: suffering backlash, 9/01/08, by kelly.

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