I was fired March of this year (2018). It all started last year of November 2017, this is during the time we were working outside of our regular hours of 8-5. They had us working from 7am to sometimes close to 9pm. Note, we did not receive overtime, only comp time for working outside normal hours. Anyway, around this time, one of the co-workers (I'll call her T) goes to our manager and asks if we're allowed to notarize a form for her daughter who was present at that time with identification to show proof that she is who she says she is and is legally to work in the US. These forms were needed for her job and they required that a non relative to notarize and sign the forms. The manager looks over the forms and says yes we can notarize them. At that moment our manager calls me into the office and tells me to go ahead to sign and notarize the forms for the co-worker because she became busy. I take the forms to my office and notarize one of the forms and sign the other form.

The next month, my co-worker calls me and informs me that she was just sexually harassed by the Lead Tech. She also informs the manager. The Lead Tech confesses to it to our manager and director whom both had a meeting with him at the office. T also had a meeting with human resources, the director and hearing committee in regards to what happened. The human resources (whom is also assistant to the CEO) informs T that she knows that she told me what happened. T told them that she did not tell anyone else what happened only our manager. T was then asked during the meeting as to why didn't she come out about it in which she replied to them that what would you do if someone tells you they're good friends with the director and they're real good friends (talking about the lead tech)? T also had second hearing with them sans the director. They allowed the lead tech resign, they did not fire him.

On March 14th, I get called to the human resources office. I was greeted by human resources and another employee (who will be taking the CEO's place when he retires) who was a witness.During that meeting I was presented with a paper and asked if that was my signature on the form. The form was an I-9 form. My signature was on the second page and dated around the time I signed and notarized the papers for T. I said yes because it was my signature. The witness, L, asked what an I-9 form is because she did not know herself.The human resources then tells me that that form is a government document and that what I did was forgery because i signed the second page at the bottom. She then has me read the consent part. Without having me sign anything I was told not mention any of it to anyone or I could be in big trouble because it is being investigated (I found out later that it was only being investigated by her and no one else). I agree and left the office. She did not interview anyone else who was involved even when I told her what happened and the manager looked over the forms and asked me to sign them. She totally ignored me in that regards. I was the only one interviewed about the signed form. A week later they fire both T and I. T was fired because they said she was using the office computer for personal matters and said I was fired for signing an I-9 form and that it is considered forgery. Later, T and I found out that after she filed a sexual harassment case, that is when they started searching her computer. She feels that it was in retaliation because she filed sexual harassment against one of their favourites and that I was caught in the cross-fire.