On Friday, I was told to sit down for a phone call from my boss, and he proceeded to tell me that someone reported that I said “KILL EM ALL!” while working, and interpreted that as a threat on the workplace.
I don’t know what he thought he heard, but I never said that. So I’m guessing he misheard something I said to myself.
Anyway he told the head of security.
I’ve been suspended from work, my work ID’s been confiscated, and I’ve been told they’ll wait for an investigation to end before deciding if I’m fired or re-assigned to a different building.
Someone will call me on monday for questioning.
So I’ve never done this before. How likely is it that I’m fired?
And worse still, what are the chances that they’ll end up pressing charges for “making death threats”? I’m trans in a state that doesn’t let you take hormones while in jail (Really bad considering I’m post-op and need hormones to not be menopausal) I REALLY don’t wanna go to jail and get V-Coded.
You need a lawyer.
I do?
If I was falsely accused of a crime by a coworker and looking at losing my job because of it I would be hiring a lawyer who specializes in employment law ASAP. That’s some serious shit that can totally fuck up your life.
Jesus fucking Christ what kind of backwards idiotic country do you people live in that you can be fired by a single colleague claiming you said something.
You can’t, we have a century of suppressing knowledge of worker protections though
Companies do illegal shit all the time, the world is full of petty tyrants who think they have more power than they do. Normally no one fights back, because it’s expensive and people are busy trying to keep their life together, if they even know they had protections that were violated in the first place
We have HR departments for exactly for this reason, to protect the company from employment lawsuits. But again, the whole suppression of knowledge of workers rights… Once a lawyer gets involved, they tend to backtrack so hard it makes your head spin
Absolutely. Get a lawyer ASAP.
Yes. And don’t say anything else to anyone except said lawyer - especially the internet.
Call a lawyer now. Do whatever they tell you.