Figured I'd ask this question here (legal advice)

[Teren_Kanan]

Just spent the last hour trying to search for answers to my question. Figured I'd ask here before I call a lawyer directly.

I was recently fired from my job of 4 years (though only 2 years at this currently location due to a transfer). I've always felt harassment/verbal abuse has been going on at my job, but due to fear of being fired by doing something about it, I never spoke up.

I support myself and my Girlfriend as far as bills go, I have recently (last year) lost my means of transportation due to a wreck (rear ended at a red light, on a Suzuki C-90), and also missed quite a bit of my regular work due to injuries. I've been extremely financially strained (lawsuit barely covered medical) due to it and I've been in a position where losing my job would have been horrible, thus my fear.

Well that fear has been removed (I work as a server/bartender at a Chili's btw) now that I've been fired, but I'm not sure if any legal action can be taken. To give some examples of said abuse, I've been called, and witnessed others being called "walking abortions", "useless", "Incompetent" and "******". The manager does things like this very commonly. He's the type who gets crazy angry during busy times, and starts berating anyone who does anything wrong whether it be accident or not, or whether they have a history of doing things wrong or not.

Hearing things like that said about you and your co-workers day after day gets highly annoying, and created a very hostile work atmosphere. There were several times when either I or a co-worker would have simply walked out/quit mid shift due to this kind of behavior from the manager, if not financially strained in a time where jobs aren't the easiest thing to get.

I and other people would and could verify this. The manager is in direct control over our schedules, and has not only used it as a threat to his employee's, but brags about it to the employee's he favors. I've heard remarks from him many times about how so-and-so wasn't going to be very happy with their schedule next week, in a manner/tone that sounded much more like "that's what they get for ****ing with me". I've personally had my schedule used as a threat against me several times.

Many others managers at my location aren't threatening or abusive, neither is the GM, it's really only just this one guy, but he's the "assistant" Gm.

Anyhow, not sure what can be done, if anything. I know very little about the legal stuff. Any advice would be highly appreciated.

If you read all this, thank you very much =p

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I don't think much can be done, but I hear you, I used to run food at a popular restaurant here, and the kitchen manager there was a major POS, *****

he was always riding people, very cold, and would make snarky remarks, not on the level that the guy at your work, but all the same, any mistake you made and he was up your ***, it was too much

well anyways, one day it was slow in the kitchen, we were just standing around and a coworker said something really funny, so everyone was laughing for a good minute or 2, and this ******* comes up to me, and he says to me that I could stop laughing, or get fired

I got drunk one night and failed to show up the next day, and that was that

 

[CliffnDallas]

Just spent the last hour trying to search for answers to my question. Figured I'd ask here before I call a lawyer directly.

I was recently fired from my job of 4 years (though only 2 years at this currently location due to a transfer). I've always felt harassment/verbal abuse has been going on at my job, but due to fear of being fired by doing something about it, I never spoke up.

I support myself and my Girlfriend as far as bills go, I have recently (last year) lost my means of transportation due to a wreck (rear ended at a red light, on a Suzuki C-90), and also missed quite a bit of my regular work due to injuries. I've been extremely financially strained (lawsuit barely covered medical) due to it and I've been in a position where losing my job would have been horrible, thus my fear.

Well that fear has been removed (I work as a server/bartender at a Chili's btw) now that I've been fired, but I'm not sure if any legal action can be taken. To give some examples of said abuse, I've been called, and witnessed others being called "walking abortions", "useless", "Incompetent" and "******". The manager does things like this very commonly. He's the type who gets crazy angry during busy times, and starts berating anyone who does anything wrong whether it be accident or not, or whether they have a history of doing things wrong or not.

Hearing things like that said about you and your co-workers day after day gets highly annoying, and created a very hostile work atmosphere. There were several times when either I or a co-worker would have simply walked out/quit mid shift due to this kind of behavior from the manager, if not financially strained in a time where jobs aren't the easiest thing to get.

I and other people would and could verify this. The manager is in direct control over our schedules, and has not only used it as a threat to his employee's, but brags about it to the employee's he favors. I've heard remarks from him many times about how so-and-so wasn't going to be very happy with their schedule next week, in a manner/tone that sounded much more like "that's what they get for ****ing with me". I've personally had my schedule used as a threat against me several times.

Many others managers at my location aren't threatening or abusive, neither is the GM, it's really only just this one guy, but he's the "assistant" Gm.

Anyhow, not sure what can be done, if anything. I know very little about the legal stuff. Any advice would be highly appreciated.

If you read all this, thank you very much =p

Unless you have hard evidence (tapes) then I don't think much can be done. You would have to prove he ment intentional harm to you. Your coworkers might back you up but with out evidence it would be he said she said. Now if you had him on tape saying this to YOU and you on tape asking him not to and him saying **** you or some such, then...

 

[YosemiteSam]

I recommend going POSTAL at Chilli's.

Honestly, you should have spoke up while you still worked there. You should have went to Brinkers Int headquarters in Dallas personally and made the complaint.

 

[Signals]

I recommend going POSTAL at Chilli's.

Honestly, you should have spoke up while you still worked there. You should have went to Brinkers Int headquarters in Dallas personally and made the complaint.

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