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Weird psycho-analyzer dude advised owner on who to fire based on... help!

Posted by: Melimelle
Date: 11/16/2006 11:22:22 PM

We just had a major lay off at the place I was working before a couple of my coworkers decided to get together and start our own design firm. Prior to the lay off,

we were forced to take personality/ideology exams (if we wanted to keep our jobs - one person was even fired prior to the agent coming because she wouldn't take the test) & then we had to speak to this weird guy on the telephone that the owner of our company hired as an agent. When I

called this man, he was asking me things like - how many parents did i have? why did my parents divorce? who raised me? why don't i speak with my father? does my brother speak with my father? what was my parents' education? what was my religion? why did i have 2 seperate religions while growing up? who took me to what church? what activities do I enjoy? how come or why don't i do some of those certain activities anymore? what kind of back injury do i have? which parts of my vertabrae are damaged? what does my husband do? is he

gregarious/outgoing? does he enjoy my company? and a bunch of very strange questions. When this man came to the company, he asked even stranger

questions, which were obvious - like what was my employment history? then the owner would ask the same question again & try to make us upset about it along. He then said that that we said things that we didn't. To top it all off, When I had brought my tape recorder in because we were told this was going to be a teambuilding/salestraining seminar, the owner also threw a big it & started cursing at me, saying I knew this was going to be a confrontational meeting. This list of strange happenings gos on & on.

Do you think that these questions were used in deciding who to terminate especially if we were examplary employees and had no bad things in our employee files, only letters from clients praising us for a job well done? Anotherwords, did they need this weird agent guy to make us take the test & question us & then give the answers to these questions to the owner in order to make a decision on who to lay off. Another odd thing that happened was that a person that was recently demoted for inability to do her job properly was the only person that was kept.

Is this event something I should seek an employment lawyer over? Thanks for your help.

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