I found out the hard way (got retaliated against, harassed, blackballed, and laid off) for exercising my First Amendment right to speak up; I expressed concern about unsafe conditions and misconducts at the workplace.
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and you didn’t SUE them????
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“I found out the hard way (got retaliated against, harassed, blackballed, and laid off) for exercising my First Amendment right to speak up; I expressed concern about unsafe conditions and misconducts at the workplace.”
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and you didn’t SUE them????”
I had no proof of the retaliation, harassment, and blackballing.
In order to prove verbal stuff, which the retaliation, harassment, and blackballing was, would have meant getting co-workers and boss to join me and thus provide proof.
Nobody would have done that, because they would be subject to the same treatment.
The layoff occurred at a time when I was going to transfer from junior college to 4-year college for my engineering degree, so I tightened my belt and went to school.
It worked out, because when I transferred to the 4-year school there was an ad there for work study at a company literally down the street from the one from which I had gotten laid off; the new company would pay my tuition if I passed the classes.
I got in to the work study program because I had 10 years experience, 8 as an engineer (was the only engineer without a degree in my Dept at the old company so they hated me for that), so I was able to get my degree and then after that go to a good company.
So, it worked out better than wrangling with big shot corporate lawyers.