I was laid off at Verizon for speaking up on Feb. 22. My title was Escort, Which is an assistant to the telephone technician. My technician was coming on to me. I didn't go for his advances so he asked to have his partner switched which was me. I get switched to another partner. A week later my old technician approached me asking was I telling people he brought me a coat. He knew for a fact I didn't say that from prior conversations. He states to me I can F$%# you up with words. I told him to get out my face because if he got jokes, I got jokes for days on his ugly self. A week or two later I'm hearing rumors that I'm giving my new technician oral sex in the work truck and that I got caught giving him oral sex in a basement at a work sight.
At first the old technician didn't come to mind, I thought maybe it was one of the girls at work that didn't like me. I started working at Verizon as a temp on Dec. 30. I made it to work threw transit strikes and blizzard storms, when theres like thirty-five Escorts and five make it to work. One of them was me.
I finally put two and two together and realized it was the old technician that started the rumor. I then went to my union stewart and the third liner of the company about the problem. They advised me that the company doesn't tolerate such things and that there would be a meeting to correct this problem. I demand respect and you will get no respect with people thinking I do stuff like that.
When I first came to the company there was a rumor of one of the foremans sleeping her way to the top. She was once an Escort. She gets no respect whether the rumor was true or not. A week later after I went to the union stewart there was an announcement that six people would be laid off.in no way in the world would I've have thought I would be on that list. From me being temp. And the old technician being permanent, they got rid of me.
A lot of sexual things happen in this company thats not appropriate. Since I wasn't down with it, I got the boot. There were plenty of other Escorts that knew they should have been let go before me. Two girls had got caught off the job and thats an immediate fire, but they are still working there. Verizon messed up my way of living for speaking up. Also the union did nothing for me.
Verizon was hiring again in Jan. Of 2007. I did all the necessary acts to get my job, but still the union did nothing for me.
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