Re: Fired while on Workers Comp

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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.

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

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?