Re: Fired while on Workers Comp

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On 10/03/08, Ron wrote:
> Hi Bob, your tale sounds similar to mine when i hurt my back
> in July 2008 at a 60-year old jewish family-run beauty
supply
> distributor on Long Island NY. I was employed with this
> company for 2-years, and over the 2-year period as a
SALARIED
> employee i worked 90-days of unpaid overtime hours, and they
> had the nerve to terminate me via written letter while off
on
> Workers Com in August saying that i had significant
> performance problems. The day before receiving the letter
> the rookie HR women harassed me on the phone while i was off
> on Workers Comp laying on ice and in severe pain. my pain
> was intense and the harassment was upsetting so i ended up
> hanging up on her.
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> never once did they mention any performance problems. and
if
> there were any performance issues, it probably was related
to
> the excessive hours i was working!
>
> Can you image being an IT Manager supporting over 100-users
> with only 1-rookie IT technician? especially for a business
> that had doubled from the previous year!
>
> they're "CHEAP" at my expense and my health suffered. no
> matter how how hard I worked, nothing was ever good enough!
> sounds typical based on the variables, right?
>
> This family-run business doesn't know who there dealing with
> because I'll fight them to the end; i operate on
principles.
> I'm working with an attorney and they'll be sued by the
State
> of NY in violation of the law.
>
> when i returned back to work against the doctors' orders the
> senior citizen owner (father) ask me "how are you doing?"
and
> when i explained the pain severe endured and that that i was
> still in physical therapy, he shuffle away like Tim Conway
> and mumbled, "i don't believe you".
>
> the day i hurt my back and dropped the printer, he was more
> worried about the wellbeing of the printer and not me being
> hurt. The Graphic Arts and AP Managers both heard him being
> more concerned about the printer being broken than my
> wellbeing. this is a man who at 3:00 PM is still
> saying "good morning" to the employees!
>
> I'm a professional employee with over 25-years of IT
> expertise who had previously worked for two international
> companies.
>
> after i returned to work against the doctors orders, the
rude
> cry-baby sissy son consistantly told me what a wonderful job
> i was doing. meanwhile, he was plotting to fire me the
> entire time and laughing behind my back! the day after i
was
> fired me, a new IT Manager replaced me. he had been in
> training the week before they fired me. the son was playing
> with my mind and laughing behind my back because he was
> replacing me.
>
> they pulled the same tactics when i was hired 2-years
earlier
> against the IT Manager. i was trained a week prior to the
IT
> Manager being fired.
>
> never in my life have i endured such behavior.
>
> i'm quite eager to seek justice and my attorney is very good.
>
> i also alerted the Controller several times over a 2-year
> period that the company was not compliant with end-user
> Microsoft licensing and owed over $20,000. the company was
> guilty of software piracy. and the daughter consistantly
> insisted that i purchase Microsoft Home and School version
of
> MS Office for their business that they reaped millions in
> profits. The Home and School version is NOT to me used for
> business.
>
> can you imagine conducting business in such an unethical
> manner?
>
> they consistantly ignore me and never took my professional
> advise seriously.
>
> lets pray to God that they successfully are sued for their
> unethical behavior.
>
> email me directly at cr5759@yahoo.com to discuss your
> situation.
>
> cheers!
> Carl
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> On 8/05/08, Bob Tucker wrote:
>> I hurt my back in May of 08 and still went to work with
>> light duty even though it didn't effect my job I was
>> fired. They started with we think your work isn't up to
>> par so we are putting you on a performance review and gave
>> me a task of things to do. They set me up for failure with
>> this list but I did everything on it even though it was
>> againts Doctors orders with a couple of task they asked of
>> me. I worked 12 hours a day 11 days streight to do
>> everything on this list and completed everything. All of a
>> sudden I got called to HR and was told I didn't complete
>> one item so they were letting me go, the thing they said I
>> didn't complete was the hardware inventory of every
>> computer in my company which reqired me to go to every
>> computer and get the srl number, asset tag and service tag
>> numbers from each computer. It meant that I had to bend
>> and go under pretty much every desk in the company to get
>> the info. The workmans comp doctors gave me limited duty
>> at work and one of the things I am not allowed to do is
>> bend and do repetitive motions. Well they told me for me
>> to get a list of all the computers I had to do this, I did
>> it and they still fired me saying I didn't do it. Well the
>> list was complete and I was trying to save my job even
>> though I was in a lot of pain going under all the desk I
>> had to. I told my boss this was hard and it hurt and he
>> said well you have to do this or you will lose your job. A
>> month before I was fired I had my review and it was as good
>> as you can get, I even got a raise and now less then 2
>> months later I am not up to par. I need to take them to
>> court because they had no right to fire me. I was told the
>> position I am in requires someone that knows what they are
>> doing at a high level, which I am at. So now I hear they
>> are giving my job to one of the helpdesk girls at my work
>> that doesn't know the differnce between a CDrom and DVD
>> player. What do I do and can anyone help me?