Saturday, August 13, 2011

My employer threatened us with bodily harm if we made a mistake?

My manager, on numerous ocaisions, threatened our team... standing in the isle between our cubes, that " if we made a mistake on our work she would "beat" us. I had been working there 6 weeks. I was scared stiff, and checked and rechecked my work, because I was so scared of making a mistake. I was in the hospital for 2 days, and my daughter had the H1N1, I was out for two days, and two excused court dates. One for a child support hearing, and one for getting my oldest daughter treatment she needed. My manager and I had a meeting on Thursday this week, and she gave me a final warning for my absences, ( I had never gotten a warning previously)and that I worked too slow. She said if youre out one more time for being sick or my kids being sick, she was "done with me.. we're done with you". In that same meeting I confronted her on my uncomfortableness in her threats of beating us, if we made a mistake. I told her that that created a threatining work environment, and it will affect performance. She admitted to it, saying she wasnt directing that comment of " beating us" at me directly. I advised it was directed at our team, which I was a part of.. .. she ended the meeting abruptly, and walked out. The next day I was sick with my crohns disease, probably exacerbated by stress, and I called in sick. I also had filed a complaint to HR about her threats earlier in the day on Friday, via email at about 10am. By Friday night at 5:30, HR called me and told me " not to report to work on Monday" ( tomorrow). What do you think? will I be able to collect unemployment if I file a claim?

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