
Bullying, lies, favoritism and they get away with it in "At Will" states
I was a cook in a memory assist living facility for a year and 4 months. When I first started it was great, so I thought then I realized that was their lure to get you in. I had been told by several people it wasn't a good place to work I didn't listen I needed a job. I was bullied, illegally suspended, and treated badly. Everyone and anyone who ever got suspended automatically was terminated from there. Everyone knew that when someone was suspended they were gone, so to everyone's surprise to see me after mine left a few people of management a little pissed. When I came back I was working in a hostile environment and was being bullied by my supervisor, I turned her in too the Executive director but they we're close friends , I had repeatly made complains of the mistreatment and nothing was ever done. I found a note in the garbage at work that my supervisor wrote about me saying she talked to the Ed before I came back from my suspension and she told her to hold me to the letter don't let nothing slide stay on her and ride her hard...( No jokes here) After that I had been screamed at in front of several co-workers, I had been spit on, harrassed and bullied. My sister was in ICU not knowing if she would pull through ask to take EmMA to take care of her and was denied. I was told to much paper work . A month later I was terminated for a piece of hair in my supervisors pizza I had made. I apologize to her and I meant this can happen when you don't wear hair nets. My hair is over 36 inches long, the hair she had in her hand was only 6-8 inches, I've been a. Cook for 25 years, it bothered me but come on things like that happened. I came back from weekend and I was suspended again didn't hear from anyone all week Friday came along and I was messaged to come see new ED, no reason nothing he handed me my check and I left. I won my unemployment claim, stating I was fired but not due to job misconduct. I get a letter last week they are appealing it. I have tons of evidence against my old supervisor, the old ED lost her job because of false write ups and the lies she said and wrote on me so I know it was retaliation for the ED losing her job is why I was fired. There is so much more to this it's to much. It just saddened me to leave those residents. So many co-worker seen the hostile environment and the mistreatment and bullying but to get anyone to stand up for me is a joke they are all afraid of losing their jobs. "At Will" states are a joke. Thanks for listening please feel free to comment.

Sorry to hear you were treated like that. I hope you're able to find something better than that for your next job.
Laura , Why would you want to work there, You could be a chef, Dietician . Please .good riddens ,,There is more to life than misery.