Don’t think it’s so simple in the land of the free, but here in the UK you’d have the right to appeal under “unfair dismissal”. They don’t seem to have carried out a fair process to determine you as the one at fault. If you’re in a union, speak to them too, as they’ll know their way around the dismissal procedure quite well.
Let us know what your lawyer says and how this turns up could be good.
/MJ popcorn gif.
Pretty much everything everyone here said is on point:
#1. Contact a lawyer immediately.
#2. Consider contacting your local branch of the EEOC as well.
#3. File for unemployment so you can get some money coming in.
#4. Cease all contact with your former employer. They’re not going to reverse their decision, and you’re not going to get your job back. If you talk to them anymore they may anticipate a lawsuit and try to cover some shit up. The less you say the better.
So you are saying that the calls where being rerouted only when you weren’t around?
call ultradavid
I’m not in California and I can’t recall signing anything. I’ve been there about seven years now.
No,
My phone did ring sometimes, but apparently not all calls make it to my desk. From what I now know, some people have been trying to get a hold of me at my desk and are under the impression I changed my number or something. There is no telling how long this has been going on. At first, I thought it could be that only internal calls (from extensions) made it to my desk, but that isn’t true because someone called me from an external number this week at my desk. Regardless, I made some calls to my desk number yesterday and the calls are still redirecting.
It’s one of those things that are so bizarre, it’s hard to believe. It’s gotta a misunderstanding between you and your boss? He wasn’t willing to hear you out?
hopefully the OP updates regularly.
Don’t let that shit marinate, LITIGATE!!!
get unemployment you’ll qualify if the suing dont work out.
Damn, man. Indentity theft is a serious crime and these digital hackers are getting real tricky these days. After you’ve been accused of something, you often find that your innocence is no longer a right they have to dispel completely and now, it’s your guilt that must be overcome; but that’s completely the wrong way round, right? I mean, everyone must be assumed to be innocent until guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt. And that doesn’t just mean; this guy, he seemed a bit fishy and we’ve got all this low quality, circumstantial evidence knocking around which makes him look kinda dubious. That means, you got proof so damning that no one can raise any sort of reasonable objection. If you are getting targeted for indentity theft, man, you have to stand up for yourself and make sure everybody knows for damn certain who you are, what you stand for, and what you have and haven’t done. If a person can use a rumour against you, and make it come back to haunt you in the future, this is how criminals are operating in our modern time. And, the media is helping nobody, because those fuckers are convicting folks before the trial has even begun. Cover your back, dude.
My advice would be to wait until everyone is inside, chain the doors shut and set the building on fire, but I suppose getting a lawyer would work just as well.
make sure you make a recording (video preferably) of you calling your number, and it redirecting, in case they fix that or take that number down. Get all evidence possible.
Some questions.
How much did this job pay annually?
Did you like this job when you had it?
What are your current employment prospects?
Everyone is quick to tell you litigate but do you have enough savings to do this?
Oh no! Don’t sue, or this guy will think that you are a pussy!
Dude, do you even know who he is?
I wouldn’t want to get called a pussy bitch by him if I were you.
Even if you don’t sue, think about when you look for another job. How is it going to look if they call this previous job of yours and ask why you were let go?
In that case, just telling the truth of what happened is sufficient.
Depends. Some legal consultations are free, and I’ve known of people who sued for wrongful termination and also got their legal fees payed for.
But if people you call or are called by reside in those states, you are required by law to inform them that you may be recording them and get their consent to continue the call.
Used to have to cold call customers from Indiana to California, and every call required me to say that.
Also why tech support and customer service lines that deal with nationwide service always have “This call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance purposes,” affixed to the beginning on a call.