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Manipulating Supervisor!

Posted by: jgatermann
Date: 10/17/2008 7:15:38 PM

My mother and I worked for the same company. She worked for 8+ years I only for 3 years. The company has been expanding, in doing so some areas of the company began to decline. The one supervisor especially was horrible. For some reason he was put in charge of a new office. (We were transferred into that office.) It was an in home healthcare company. The new supervisors good friend was given a job in the office which he was not qualified to do. Consumers and employees began having problems. The new supervisor and his buddy were placing employees into homes where they were not trained or skilled to work with the needs and/or disabilities of that particular person. As my mother and I were sent in to clean up all the messes created by this supervisor, we saw easy ways to fix each problem. We decided to write a proposal which we did. The new supervisor kept promising to take it higher which he never did, so we did. After wards it moved through all administrators and the board of directors within just a couple of weeks. On August 21, 2008 we had a final meeting with a Higher Up. It was decided that things would began being enacted. After the meeting I informed the 'new' supervisor (who was my supervisor) I was moving out of county. He started telling me companies I could work for. I told him no I wanted to stay with the company I just wanted to transfer to a closer office. He told me he would contact the three closest. A week later I had not heard anything so I called the offices none had heard from him. The one didn't have anything for me the other sent me an application to fill out so I could be transferred. My last day working for my originial office was Sept.5, 2008. I told the scheduler to have me a replacement to train by that date so that I could be scheduled for whichever office I would b transferred to. After my move, I never heard anything from the company, until October 15, 2008. I received a distribution of my 401(K). I called the main office and asked why I was informed that I had quit my job. I replied that I hadn't I was to be transferred. On October 16, 2008 I received an Exit Opinion Survey. I enclosed a paper explaining i didn't quit, but was to be transferred. (This is especially damaging due to I collected unemployment benefits while waiting for my transfer to go through). This may not seem like much but at the same time, my sister had a breakdown. My mother had asked for family medical leave at least 2 days per week because she had my sisters children. She was denied saying that she could not be replaced. She then got into trouble for being late (basically just from being overwhelmed with the situation, and the children) she explained that was why she needed the leave which was denied by the supervisor AGAIN. On September 6, 2008 she had had car trouble and had to walk two miles to get cell phone service. Due to this she was unable to call the office regarding her troubles 2 hours before the start of the shift as it is designated in the handbook. She was fired. She was told to claim unemployment. The company denied her, she appealed and won.

The supervisor was extremely angry about our proposal. He always asked if we were implying or saying he wasn't doing his job? I can't help but think that the problems and proposal are somehow linked together. Any advice on what we should do now?

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