Sue the SOB. What he did over the course of time is create a hostile work
environment for one and all as well as sexual harrasment. and is not
tolerated by either the law, the courts or workers. Find yourself a lawyer
and also report it to the police as attempted assault with a dangerous
instrument, harrasment and other penal laws that are peculiar to CA. You
should file a report also with the CA Department of Labor and a Federal
agency - the EEOC.
Sue the SOB!!!!!!!!!! And file a police report and may be they will send
someone over to investigate and shake the bastard up.
Don't wait and write everything down so you don't forget anything and get
the eyewitnesses names and addresses and all others who will back you up
concerning all the other lousy things this bastard did over the course of
the year. It is possible if you can get enough people and especially women
together you can file a class action.
'66 Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: <SPL311RDST@aol.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 1:27 PM
Subject: <OT> boss w/a pick axe- my scary day
> Yes, it's off-topic, but I gotta vent. Thanks to my Roadster Family for
> lending an ear (or eyeball as it would be)
>
> Up until 3:30pm yesterday I was employed by a microchip tape & reel outfit
in
> Tempe, AZ - Back-End Technologies. Those of you in the industry may have,
or
> will hear of it as they are growing rapidly w/ambitions to be a US leader
in
> the field. They do a LOT of work for Motorola and other such large
companies.
> The boss is a notoriously abusive hard-@$$. He has always been verbally
> abusive to all of his employees, and no one in the office was exempt from
his
> attacks. For almost a full year I was able to put up wtih it. We regularly
> head such things as " I hate you all" coming over the loudspeaker,
official
> announcements of "Any one who pisses me off today will have their throat
> slit", and many variations of the "women are idiots" theme. All included
> gratuitious use of the "F-word" and other such colorful language. I
> personally was told when my 7 yo little girl was very sick to "Throw the
> F***ing thing in the garbage." An unwritten part of my job description was
> "damage-control" - smoothing things over with our many vendors after they
had
> come in contact with him.
>
> Friday was the last straw for me. Our shop is moving and between all of
the
> confusion created there, and lunches of the office personnel, the phone
did
> not get answered for a whole 10 min. It was the wrong 10 min, as the boss
> called then. <shaking head> When he got back to the shop he let loose his
> fury.
>
> It all came to a head with this hair-triggered, (mentally distrurbed?)
VERY
> angry guy screaming directly at me about everything that had pissed him
off
> that week - and (this is the best ie:SCARIEST part) waving a hand-held
> pick-axe type tool directly in my face. I told him to put it down several
> times, but he didn't. About then the "background" processing took over,
and I
> was looking for a way outta the room - condsidering my options if he
actually
> took a swing at me. I got out of the room physically unharmed, but shaken,
> and without a job. I thank the *Powers That Be* for giving Mr. LeClair the
> control to NOT slice my head open - but knowing what I do about him, it
> easily could have happened.
>
> Shaken, I left - but with enough foresight to photocopy my timecard. I
have
> two witnesses that were right there in the office, but I have no idea if I
> should take this any further. Police? OSHA? ACLU? Overall, I am just so
glad
> to be outta there. It did give me bad dreams all last night - I hope they
go
> away soon.
>
> Roadster Content: now I get to drive around town in it to find a new job.
> Thanks for the time.
>
> Laurie
> (jobless & shaken in the East Valley)
> 70 SPL311
> 69 SRL311
> Chandler, AZ
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