lily56
07-18-2008, 02:40 PM
:(Recently I was fired from my position as a Retail Store Manager. My offense? I gave the employee discount to a seasonal employee.
On the same day, another manager did the same exact thing. We were both interrogated by Loss Prevention regarding the incidents on the same day. During her interrogation, she was asked if she was married, had children and whether or not she was attending school. (The company also recently learned that she is pregnant.)
I was not asked those questions during my interrogation. The other manager has been with the company for only six months. I have been there for five years and have no discipline actions against me. She is 24, I am 39.
I was fired for giving the discount. The other manager was not disciplined in any way and is still employed with the company.
Before her interrogation, she was asked to sign a confidentiality agreement regarding their conversation. I was not asked to do so.
I understand that I was an "at will" employee and the company has the right to fire me, no matter how petty the offense or how unfair it seems.
But does anybody believe that because I was fired and the other employee was not, it can be construed as some kind of discrimination?
Can a company legally ask these kinds of questions of an employee and could they use those answers to determine who to fire?
The other manager is my friend and is just as shocked that I was fired and she was not. She has asked the company to explain the purpose of those questions and is waiting a reply at this time.
On the same day, another manager did the same exact thing. We were both interrogated by Loss Prevention regarding the incidents on the same day. During her interrogation, she was asked if she was married, had children and whether or not she was attending school. (The company also recently learned that she is pregnant.)
I was not asked those questions during my interrogation. The other manager has been with the company for only six months. I have been there for five years and have no discipline actions against me. She is 24, I am 39.
I was fired for giving the discount. The other manager was not disciplined in any way and is still employed with the company.
Before her interrogation, she was asked to sign a confidentiality agreement regarding their conversation. I was not asked to do so.
I understand that I was an "at will" employee and the company has the right to fire me, no matter how petty the offense or how unfair it seems.
But does anybody believe that because I was fired and the other employee was not, it can be construed as some kind of discrimination?
Can a company legally ask these kinds of questions of an employee and could they use those answers to determine who to fire?
The other manager is my friend and is just as shocked that I was fired and she was not. She has asked the company to explain the purpose of those questions and is waiting a reply at this time.
