Speak Up!

Lupe, Arkansas    

     I used to work at a construction site until I was fired for rejecting a supervisor who wanted to go out with me.
     When I first started working at the construction firm, there was this man that kept asking me out and I kept saying “No.”     
     He seemed to stop and I thought everything was okay.   Boy was I wrong!
     As time went on he had got promoted and that’s when it started happening again.  He would constantly ask me out and I would keep saying “No.” 
     Eventually, I reported him to the supervisor above him.  But the supervisor did not do anything about it.
     Well as time went on, they sent me to another work area because I was a fire watch and it’s part of my job to rotate around the work site. 
     One day, the man who has been harassing me came to my work area and saw me using a make-up compact.   He didn’t come up close to check what it really was in my hand.  Instead, he just reported me, saying it was a cell phone.  (They have a no cell phone policy there. )  He told the HEAD supervisor and they fired me.
     I have called the construction site hot line and it sounds like they are not doing anything about it.  They did not even investigate the whole cell phone thing.  They just fired me cause he said so.  I am having to go through a lot to TRY and get my job back.

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