I quit my job just a few months ago. It was a really hard decision as I made good money and was afraid to leave for this reason. Life got to the point that I had no other choice but to quit. I couldn’t take it anymore. I felt like I was spinning my head around in circles, while having a carrot dangled in front of my face just to see if I would bite.
I began working for a company years ago. Things were not going good at the company and I was hired to take place of another person and try to turn things around.
At first things were good. My boss loved me and was so happy with the work I was doing. He even asked me a few times within the first year about becoming partner. Wow! I was more than excited. Was this all real? Where my dreams of owning my own company really coming true?
8 years later to the date and I quit my job. I felt so much relief as I walked out the door. Everything has been a downhill spiral ever since. Trying to keep my head high and know I did the right thing for me. I know I will survive, but my gosh it is so hard to wrap my head around everything that has taken place since.
I filed for unemployment and put sexual harassment as the reason for quitting. I was denied unemployment due to some new laws that were put in to place. I guess I made too much money in one quarter to collect. So I appealed.
Yesterday was my appeal hearing. The hearing was for financial determination. The owner of the company I worked for (the one who was doing the sexual harassing) and his son in law came to the hearing. They tried to turn a financial determination hearing into a trial of things they “Claim” I did.
Supposedly I gave myself bonus checks for over a year a few years back. They were supposedly unauthorized. My mouth about dropped when I heard that one. I never took any bonuses that were unauthorized. And my end of year bonus last year I took more than I was suppose to. WOW! was all I had to say. I questioned the owner of the company about things that had to do with these bonuses. AlI he could say was I don’t remember. You don’t remember? For real?
I am not sure what was up with all of that. Because none of it was true. Supposedly I tried to take the computer system down prior to leaving. This wasn’t true either. I was kind enough to help his son in law with any questions he had after I left. User names/Passwords/How to reprogram the phone system. Does a woman who was trying to take the entire computer system down cooperate in such a way?
I was kind of thankful as I walked out the door from that hearing. They just showed me they have nothing on me and are trying to scare me. I contact my attorney and am moving forward with legal action. Prior to this I was just happy to be gone and was only going after severance. Now I took the gloves off.
For the life of me I can not understand how people can lie under oath. I know it happens all the time, but really?! You knocked a woman down who grew your company to be a success and did everything in her power to make sure it was based on agreements that kept changing over the years. You were always asking her to marry you to get 1/2 the company and now I am the bad guy.
I just thank God that I know I didn’t do anything wrong and my books were clean. Amazes me how people can do the things they do and then try to set you up to look like it was you.
Would a woman who was submitting unauthorized bonus checks via payroll for well over a year quit her job and expose herself by filing unemployment for sexual harassment? I think not.
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change
The courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference
The thing is all it would have taken was a phone call with an apology and a signature on the agreement we were working on. Along with the promise to never throw marriage in my face again.
But now it looks like a legal battle awaits me! ugh!~
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