Re: suffering backlash

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On 8/22/08, disgusted wrote:
> 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.

What State are you in? Whether retaliation for reporting
discrimination is protected depends upon the answer to that
question. In the meantime, perhaps you should consider
contacting the VP again (this time not anonymously.) He
obviously took action the last time; there's no reason not
to believe he won't tell the manager to address the pay
issue immediately.