Dude Gets Fired on His First Day of Work After Fellow Employee Lies About Him Making an Inappropriate Comment Because He's Jealous of His Salary

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    Font - r/antiwork u/Funkyourdauter • 18h Took one for the team....... fired on first day
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    Font - So I started a new job today as a maintenance worker for a large hotel chain. I arrived and was shown around and told how things work. I felt good about it so far. Then the Manager introduces me to the other guy doing the same job just less hours. Within maybe 10 minutes we were alone chatting and I decide to ask him what his hourly pay rate is. He soon found out I was making 3$ an hour more than him. He had been there for about 2 months at this point. I go about doing a couple small proj
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    Font - the office via radio and told "you said an inappropriate remark about someone's penis size and an employee overheard you" "This isn't going to work out" Was told to leave and not come back. I know 100% I made no such comments or jokes. When I asked who heard it? she told me it was the other maintenance guy. Looks more like he got mad about his pay and demanded more and was told to go away, and they made some shit up to get rid of me knowing I probably told him. Either way I dodged a bulle
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    Hair - P.s This was not through the temp agency. I left the temp agency job to come here and got screwed. Back with the temp agency already.
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    Rectangle - Skippymcpoop . 18h It sounds more like you were sabotaged than you took one for the team. If you can find a different job good riddance. ... Reply 3.5k
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    Smile - Funkyourdauter OP • 18h Maybe. The temp service I was with took me back so I'll lose maybe 2 days of pay lol G ... 858
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    Font - stopjef 16h ● Did you ask them how big you said it was? You could provide evidence to dispute the claim? Reply 894 ...
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    Font - Snoo75383 • 17h This sounds like illegal retaliation, I would get a labor lawyer and sue Reply 853
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    Rectangle - Funkyourdauter OP. 17h If I had money or time I would but I'm poor so I cant. 354
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    Font - Snoo75383 • 17h You can usually get a free consultation, and if you have a case the money you could make from a lawsuit would easily pay for the lawyer. Definitely worth a shot. And while it's great that you "took one for the team", you shouldn't let them get away it 4336 ...
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    Font - Xerisca 11h • This is so typical of a lot of hotels. My husband was in maintenance at a hotel for 5 years. Over those years, he got great reviews and several pay raises. At some point, management decided he was now making too much money, and one of the housekeepers had a husband who was willing to work for less.
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    Font - The GM made up a story that my husband stole the master keys that opened all the rooms. When he started, keys were kept in a safe. 3 months before they fired him, all the sudden keys were supposed to go in an unsecured drawer at the front desk. This was the setup for the firing. They also refused to let him put in a work order to fix the security cameras, which mysteriously got vandalized at around the same time.
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    Font - Then, they refused his unemployment claim. Stating he'd committed a crime by stealing the keys (but they never filed a police report, knowing it would be false). That's when we went to the State Labor board who provided him with a free attorney. For some employment issues, especially wrongful firing, a free attorney might be possible.
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    Font - He won hard. In fact, it didn't even go to court, just mediation.. The hotel reps didn't even show up for the mediation court date. That's an automatic win. He got a small settlement and full unemployment benefits, and the state opened a labor practice investigation against the hotel. The guy who replaced him for cheap? Well, it turned out he and 3 other housekeepers weren't eligible for employment in the USA.
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    Font - And a few years after that the hotel failed, and the city bought the property, who tried to turn it into a homeless shelter, but the super rich community where it was located went all NIMBY and last I heard, its being torn down now. The hotel was definitely a well-known mid market chain, nationwide. Point being, for cases like this, many US states provide access to free or low cost employment lawyers. ... Reply 116
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    Font - VaticanCame0s • 16h It's awfully gracious of you to consider them "the team" ... Reply 19
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    Rectangle - Funkyourdauter OP. 16h Indeed. After reading more things here I am certain I am better off not working there. 9
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    Font - to gonnery. • 15h Textbook retaliation firing. Illegal but I don't know if it is worth pursuing. Hard to prove here. Reply 20 DrStrangepants ...

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