My boss is a total locker room bully
Patrick, Oklahoma
I just started a new job and the supervisor continually makes degrading remarks about fellow workers personal odors, sexual preferences, appearances, working habits.
He is a total locker room bully and this week alone has asked me if I like little boys, have I ever considered a sex change operation, that I have a nice ass; I even caught him taking photos of me with his camera phone.
I reported his conduct to upper management. Later, this supervisor confronted me in the warehouse and asked whether I had knowledge of the number of employees out on workman’s comp. He said that I better be careful or I might be next.
I started bringing a tape recorder to work and have now started a paper trail to upper management of my concern of the safety of the public. This is a major household moving company therefore it extends into the public. His remarks about holding down women are really sick. Upper management has not responded to my complaints.
Update: I recieved an “Employee (Disciplinary) Notice in reguards to my complaints and paper trail. It is an attempt to change my employee status to contract laborer. Many companies designate individuals who perform services for them as “independent contractors” or “contract labor” to avoid the hassles of having employees. Fortunately, it is not that easy. I responded to the HR supervisor and asked them to confirm rumors of other complaints against this supervisor by fellow employees, including sex acts at work. Again, total silence from upper management.
OMG, this doesn’t make the hall of shame?
They aren’t going to tell you about other complaints–it gives you too much power. It’s best that you quietly ask around about it yourself. If you locate others who have complained, you could join together. But don’t reveal your hand to the managers until you are ready to play it.
Even as a contract worker, you are protected by the same laws as non-contract workers. It doesn’t make it legal to harass you.
But I am NOT a contract worker, I am an employee who punches a time clock. To withhold federal income tax, and pay Social Security, Medicare, FUTA and state unemployment taxes out of every check; it seems odd they would try to change my employee status to a labor ready contract laborer? Seems my job function has changed too; from a class A CDL truck driver to a warehouseman working alone. Managers have been given incedent reports and I already have several taped confessions. Just waiting for them to break the silence on this supervisors conduct.
I understood you–you think they are trying to change your status to contract worker in retaliation for your complaining about your boss. You may very well be right, considering the timing.
I was simply pointing out that it doesn’t weaken your case if they DO change your status. They are just as liable for your boss’s treatment of you, not to mention they may now be liable for a charge of retaliation.
Keep documenting everything!
Don’t wait until something more happens. It sounds like you have enough to go to EEOC now. I waited and lost my job. At that point, I had to focus on paying my bills and couldn’t afford to pursue the case. If you go to EEOC now they will have no choice but to back off. Please don’t make the same mistake I did in thinking I could get the company to make it right. They only care about protecting themselves – not you.
I am back home tonight after another meeting with this corporate lawyer on the 17th floor of the Chase Manhattan building in Oklahoma City. These lawyers demanded I sign a disciplinary action form against me for filing a sexual harassment claim. Can you believe it? The victim of sexual harassment is being disciplined. They said this supervisor hates me and that is why he said those things; and I am being disciplined for discussing this with anyone; that would include you my friends.
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Your performance has been found unsatisfactory for the reasons set forth below.
It has come to our attention while interviewing employees about your sexual harassment claims that you have talked to employees about this claim after you were ordered by corporate attorneys NOT to discuss this with anyone. Furthermore, you confronted an employee to discuss this in detail. If this happens again your employment may be terminated.
Those tape recordings about the employee overhearing the sexual harassment’s must be the confronted employee, long before I saw the corporate attorney. They insist I need to just shut up and continue to work with this supervisor even though he degrades me sexually? They said they told him to stop asking if I had a small penis, if I liked little boys, if I have ever been with a man, have I considered a sex change operation, and that I had a nice ass. All that I objected to immediately, and complained to the General Manager, in writing.
This corporate lawyer served as an Administrative Law Judge for the Department of Labor. His practice has included representation of clients in defense of cases arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act, in addition to cases involving retaliation under the various federal and state laws relating to employee discipline.
There seems to be a conflict of interest in this investigation by the employers corporate lawyers. Contact the EEOC about the ex- Administrative Law Judge for the Department of Labor. This is a fine example of safety of the public and our political justice system.
Thats just stupid, they try to shut u up just so he can keep being a harrassing jerk! I wish other people that he has said that kinda stuff to would stand up with u! I mean with them trying to shut u up, it makes them look worst, like they promot the crap he says to u, for all we know they probly do it to and thats why they havent done anything to help u! I hope all the best for u on this, although i know if it was me i would have just told him to ‘fuck off’ and kicked him in the balls….but thats just me! I raelly hope that somthing happens to him, stupid jerk should see that hes the biggest pig ever – he oviously dosent care what he says and must seem to know that they wont do anything to him, hes probly friends with them all and their trying to cover his harrassing jerk ass….I hope they smarten up and do something, i wish u the best – i know dealing with that crap isnt easy!
I found the female driver, she called and said she had to run away. Seems she is a surviving victim of domestic violence and abuse. She said those threats set off a survival instinct to get out of Dodge City. Guess that is what they teach in wife beating classes, poor girl.
The EEOC called and said this was my assigned mediation person. I asked about the investigation and they said they are not doing an investigation and are scheduling a mediation process. This month the FBI reports there are over 500 unidentified dead women in ditches along our interstates. They suspect the serial killers are long haul truck drivers. There is a dead murder victim found in one of our companies trailers. I am reporting a male on male sexual harassment from a long haul truck driver who is supervising locally because the economy is slow. The EEOC said we need to have mediation before any investigations and I am going to need a lawyer for that. Seems like that is calling the suspected criminal on the carpet for a plea bargain before you investigate the crime. Know doubt the FBI is having trouble solving these cases. Hey, I need a lawyer so I can fill out the EEOC ID-10-T form for mediation without investigation.
Oklahoma is one of the biggest trucking industry hubs in our nation. As I am looking for a lawyer on this sexual harassment case in a state known only for its oil and trucking industry. Can you believe there are only two law firms in this entire state who are listed as civil litigation attorneys for Title VII. As the FBI try to identify those 500 dead women in those ditches along side our interstates they might want to check the files that fell on deaf ears in those only two firms. When I tell them I am a truck driver and this is about the trucking industry the phone goes silent and there is a conflict of interest. Only interest I have is “the safety of the public?”
Brittany seems to think telling this supervisor to back off and kick him would be her responce. Don’t think I just ignored this guys remarks young lady. This supervisor is 6′2 and 285 pounds and on several occasions I was willing to fight my way out of a trapped situation in a trailer, we had some heated words about who was going to end up the bitch. On my first day of work his first question to me was: Have you ever been in prison? When I said no, he asked: Have you ever been with a man? I again told him no, and end of conversation about that crap. I did not want to be considered homophobic and was going to leave it alone. It was him that continued on for several months asking if I had a big or small penis, have I ever, or would I considered a sex change operation, do I like little boys, wanting to know if I liked blow jobs, he did; remarks about my nice ass and if I liked my nipples touched. His aggressiveness just kept getting worse and he seemed to like my resistance to his male on male sexual remarks. When I went to the General Manager my first question was about this supervisors criminal record, not his sexual remarks. When I was asked why I wanted to know? I said: because I feel this supervisor is a danger to my co-workers, to me, and to the public. The next day I put it in writting on his desk. When you are trapped in a trailer with a 6′2″ 285 pound convict blocking the door saying he wants to screw you in the ass it makes you wounder who is going to die today. I will fight to the death Brittany, I am a class A truck driver.
No lawyer yet, and unemployment insurance is still pending.
After an exhausting search for a lawyer who would even consider a male on male sexual harassment and retaliation case against the trucking industry, I will be meeting with one next Monday. Unemployment still being blocked and pending for six weeks now. Called the 800 number last week and my claim was blocked by some supervisor without explanations. The intake lady said she would look into it. No denial, just blocked and pending? Must be the political part of sexual harassment in the workplace. Next time you will comply to the supervisors sexual offers or starve to death. Victimization of the victims of crime. Kind of like taking the children away from battered women if they call 911. With the new child endangerment laws women are afraid to call for help because they will loose their kids. Political leaders can now claim domestic violence is on a decrease. Thinking the DOL plays the same games with peoples lives.
Remember the corporate lawyer on the 17th floor of the Chase Manhattan building in Oklahoma City. The one who claimed he was hired as an advocate for the employees in the investigation of the sexual harassment claims. Just been informed he will represent the trucking company in the EEOC mediation. No conflict of interest there; no ethics violations, tell the employees you are the “advocate for the employees” in the investigation, then construct the terminations of all witnesses, then become the retained defence attorney. Is this the way it works for female victims? With the case scheduled for trial on June 15, Chief Judge Linda Reade last week dismissed the EEOC’s claim that CRST had a “pattern or practice” of tolerating sexual harassment. Reade wrote that there was evidence of male drivers crawling into women’s bunks uninvited, ordering women off trucks and tossing their belongings out of cabs, and of male drivers punching, kicking, grabbing, fondling and raping female drivers. But no “pattern or practice” of tolerating sexual harassment. The government sought to represent 265 former employees at CRST, which the court rejected over 100 because their depositions were not taken within the time allowed. EEOC now after all the loopholes will go to trial on 35 individual cases. Raping females and throwing them off the truck thousands of miles from home. No “pattern or practice” and the FBI said 500 unidentified female dead bodies found at truck stops and interstate ditches, suspect long haul truck driver serial killers. Back to the ethics of lawyers!!! Not sure if anyone reads this but it is a good place to vent my concerns for public safety.
“pattern or practice” of tolerating sexual harassment? How bad is the problem in the trucking industry? Vitt a truck driver was arrested last year; in July, he allegedly tried to transport child pornography across the Canadian border. The Trucking Industry corporation attorney was able to plea bargin and as a condition of his sentence, he was not supposed to have contact with any children younger than age 12. Still employed as a class A driver with this company Vitt took a 5 year old girl for a ride in his truck on Nov. 15 and assaulted her twice in the bunk area. This incident was not the first time for Vitt; a past psychological evaluation shows Vitt exhibits distorted sexual impulses. The corporation had these medical records durring the porn into Canada charges. Still kept his job as a OTR driver. Upon his release from prison, Vitt will have to again register as a sex offender every 90 days for the rest of his life. “NO PATERN OR PRACTICE” of tolerating sexual harassment???? Not only do these major companies tolerate these practices they seem to promote them. FBI is doing a great job, today a serial rapist truck driver caught in Atlanta conecting 4 rapes, looking for more then ten more victims of this one driver, white tractor trailer. Seems there is “NO PATERN OR PRACTICE” of tolerating sexual harassments. Just hand out those ID-10-t forms.
Seems my unemployment is lost again and had to fax 13 pages again to the DOL. It has been seven weeks of still pending. Now the EEOC mediator has given me a strange letter with dates of Tuesday June 23 and Thursday July 23rd as dates for mediation in OKC. Confirmed dates, this is not a choice of dates letter. Being a 2 hour drive each way I responded to the letter and asked which one was the real date? No reply. Told this mediation process is where the company offers the victim some pitiful sum of money to drop the charges. Unlike most victims of sexual harassment I am not a single mother, who by now, with seven weeks of unemployment blocked and pending would be starving. I am getting a great understanding of the victimization of the victims of crime with this first Title VII case. It would seem even the witnesses to these crimes are subjected to police style interagations and constuctive terminations. Like I said co-worker Unique ran away to Georgia in fear from threats to punch her in the face if she testified. I was totally unaware that the trucking industry had those EEOC cases with CRST until this major trucking company started this investigation and quickly constructed the terminations of the witnesses. Since then I have started watching the news and web pages on their patern of tolerating sexual harassment, acts of rapes, and promoting those who obviously break the FMCSR to make them more money. It would seem this is very common knowledge in government circles. There are a lot of good family men out there driving trucks; it is really sad that the corporations have torn out the safety of the public pages from their drivers manuals. Our political leaders are all about the bleeping money. This mediation process in Title VII in my opinion is promoting and teaching the practice of tolerating sexual harassment to all those single mothers who have been subjected to sexual harassments and rapes by supervisors. Kind of like good cop, bad cop games, you can do this the hard way or the easy way. Mediation is a waist of time when it is about safety of the public and not the bleeping money.
It is about time; denied unemployment. An evaluation of our facts shows you left your work voluntarily and without good cause connected to your work environment. Kind of like the Judge in the CRST case claiming No “patern or practice”. Like I have continued to say; everyday you can find articals in the news on the pattern of our trucking industry. Today; Alabama, Citronelle truck driver James Anthony Reid, 31, guilty 15 counts of rape, sodomy and sex abuse involving six children since 2006. The victims, both boys and girls, provided jurors with articulate, compelling and disturbing testimony about their encounters with Reid. Reid admitted while on the witness stand Wednesday before Circuit Judge Michael Youngpeter that he did sexually abuse an 8-year-old girl, so what?
NO PATTERN OR PRACTICE with this truck driver; my guess is they will claim the guy is mentally deficient. Then why is he driving trucks, and those who report these idiots get constructive terminations? Even the DOL seems to tolerate these behaviors as a good thing in the work environment. Thank God for law enforcement.
Really love my new job delivering frozen meals to the homebound elderly. It is sad to see all these elderly in substandard housing and on fixed income. These meals are all they seem to have to look forward to. My new boss claims the government is going to cut all these nutrition projects for elderly. But until that happens I am having a great time helping these elderly. Mediation on the 23rd of July at EEOC and appealed the DOL unemployment denial.
Went to mediation today and they offered me money and like I said before it is about “safety of the public” not the money. Again the corporate attorney said: The trucking industry is hostile, so what! Seems they do not even deny the fact and act like they are above the federal laws because they are the trucking industry. Mediation went know where and it now is off again to EEOC investigation process. The same corporate lawyer who did the sexual harassment investigation is now the defence lawyer and hostile witness and throw out all ethics and conflict laws. I hope EEOC is having better luck with their CRST case and those 265 female trainees this year.
Wow. I can’t be;lieve you have the stength to go through all of this. I started reading initially becuase of the word “Bully”. I too have been being harrassed at work by my immediate supervisor and four co- workers. I am the only woman in my department and the guys really are old school bullies. I have had to look daily at a “mangina” award along with several other visual aides ( crotches of trees etc…) . They say the most inapropriate things about sexual stuff daily. I was off due to a surgery recently and the big jokes were I was having a vasectomy or getting a sex change or my “tail” cut off. They really have a good time bullying. I complained to HR (who listened and did things by the book)but now the guys (who got their hands slapped)in my dept. are shunning me. I don’t have your strength. I will probably be quitting my job in the next week or so. I just can’t take it and it’s making me physically ill. I will check back on you though. I admire your strength.
The decision of appeal of the determination of unemployment denying my benefits under voluntary quit laws, has been reversed. Therefore, the claimant volutarily left last work with good cause and in compliance with the law. So, there are still ethics in the laws once you get past the deny all claims introduction to the system. Laura, it is not about strength or power on my part, but the “safety of the public.” Like I mentioned in my posts there is a homicide investigation, and a young male beaten to death found in a company trailer. There is a line I will tolerate with language and jokes, but when you cross over to rape remarks, or child abuse, I will be right on that hard and heavy!
Got the right to sue letter and so far two employment lawyers have taken under the table payoffs and quit. Obviously there is no Justice or ethics left in our society. Today another tractor trailer driver was spotted molesting little girls under 10 in Wal Marts.
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/22190181/detail.html
It seems know one takes this seriously.
I called all the witnesses that heard the remarks of holding down women and preferring little boys. Not one was called by the EEOC investigator. Just like the homicide investigation where Dale Anderson was beaten to death and dumped into the companies Allied Van Lines trailer. Know one working at the company was called by homicide investigators. State troopers called him a transient, but he was an employee the week before his death at a Vance AFB office move? No need to lower minimum wage when you can toss them in a ditch as a transient. 500 unidentified dead females at truck stops according to the FBI report; makes you question how many identified dead women were found?