Hello
I was working in this company (SMC and EMC)for 9 years and people know me as one of the smart employee that they can seek for help and advice when they need help. I'm a manager reporting to the same boss for 8 years. He is now the president of the company name (Joe Wu). He started to harassed me and make a pass on me very often and obvious in the last 2 years and be a real jerk whenever possible (hostile, violent, screaming, yelling, verbal abusive). He's constantly wanted to go to lunch or have a coffee talk with me and sometime dinner. I said NO nicely to him everytime because I feel uncomfortable being that closed to him and asked him to stop whatever feeling he has for me. He didn't give up and always trying to have alone time with me in the office.
However I've confronted him to stop harassing me and just try to be professional at work. Somehow he didn't like my reaction and got so mad and asked me to quit my job if I don't listen to him. He also threatens me to make my life miserable if I think I'm better than him. I left his office buzzing and crying because I was so upset and didn't know what to do. I was going to talk to HR, but our HR is powerless when it comes to this guy issues. He has too many issues that everyone in the company have to accepted because he has too much power even the CEO so afraid to make things right for other employees. After that confrontation, he started to take away my projects and assigned to someone else. He also let other employees know that they're not allowed to talk to me and all requests that used to come to me have been reassigned to someone else. Slowly I got nothing left to do and everyone scare to talk to me because of his order. I was scare of his action and feel so low that he can treated me this way. I know he would fire me one day in the way where the law can't do anything about it or protect me and he will always walk around proudly as the president of the company. He always thinks the law can't touch him eventhough he treated his people like an animal (you'll get nice treat from him like free laptop or free days off if you listen and follow his order). You'll get fire from his company in one way or another if you stand up for yourself and want to do the right things.
Well he laid me off last week and everyone was shocking. He always said to other people that I'm the most valuable employee in the company and one of the smart employees he has ever worked with, but yet I still got terminated.
Is there any lawsuit I can file against him or this company? Can this consider to be a wrongful termination or retaliation since he took always my works?
Please advice
Best Regards
Patti May
PS: he used to seriously and joking that he would leave his wife and kids to be with me when he can. He is one sick man.
I was working in this company (SMC and EMC)for 9 years and people know me as one of the smart employee that they can seek for help and advice when they need help. I'm a manager reporting to the same boss for 8 years. He is now the president of the company name (Joe Wu). He started to harassed me and make a pass on me very often and obvious in the last 2 years and be a real jerk whenever possible (hostile, violent, screaming, yelling, verbal abusive). He's constantly wanted to go to lunch or have a coffee talk with me and sometime dinner. I said NO nicely to him everytime because I feel uncomfortable being that closed to him and asked him to stop whatever feeling he has for me. He didn't give up and always trying to have alone time with me in the office.
However I've confronted him to stop harassing me and just try to be professional at work. Somehow he didn't like my reaction and got so mad and asked me to quit my job if I don't listen to him. He also threatens me to make my life miserable if I think I'm better than him. I left his office buzzing and crying because I was so upset and didn't know what to do. I was going to talk to HR, but our HR is powerless when it comes to this guy issues. He has too many issues that everyone in the company have to accepted because he has too much power even the CEO so afraid to make things right for other employees. After that confrontation, he started to take away my projects and assigned to someone else. He also let other employees know that they're not allowed to talk to me and all requests that used to come to me have been reassigned to someone else. Slowly I got nothing left to do and everyone scare to talk to me because of his order. I was scare of his action and feel so low that he can treated me this way. I know he would fire me one day in the way where the law can't do anything about it or protect me and he will always walk around proudly as the president of the company. He always thinks the law can't touch him eventhough he treated his people like an animal (you'll get nice treat from him like free laptop or free days off if you listen and follow his order). You'll get fire from his company in one way or another if you stand up for yourself and want to do the right things.
Well he laid me off last week and everyone was shocking. He always said to other people that I'm the most valuable employee in the company and one of the smart employees he has ever worked with, but yet I still got terminated.
Is there any lawsuit I can file against him or this company? Can this consider to be a wrongful termination or retaliation since he took always my works?
Please advice
Best Regards
Patti May
PS: he used to seriously and joking that he would leave his wife and kids to be with me when he can. He is one sick man.
