needhelpbadly
04-25-2009, 12:11 AM
I apologize for the extra post here. There are so many topics, I missed this one at first. This seems to be more accurate to my issue so here goes:
First and foremost, I was forced to quit without choice due to health concerns amongst other ongoing issues and abuses at work. When I did, I then learned about my rights under OSHA and filed a complaint. OSHA then called my old employer and apparently their first question to them was if they recently let someone go. The VP mentions my name, and the agent "acknowledged" my name to him. I specifically stated on the complaint to NOT mention me at all as I feared severe retaliation which has now happened in the form of legal threats amongst other things from the owner of the company.
To go back a bit, I have been planning to quit my job for a while due to a complete and utter negligence in making it a safe work environment, and also complete disaster in management to the point I could not conduct my duties as IT director at the company. Thursday the 23rd was the final straw and I decided to resign immediately. No one at that company has any idea how the internet or networks work, so when their website went down and I no longer was there to fix it, the owner left threatening messages at 2am and 4am early Friday morning, which had I not turned my phone off I would have been woken up by, in regards to how he is going to sue me for sabotage and he reported me to the FBI and all this mess. Failures of their systems happened on a regular basis of which I took care of quickly with a quick restart of these systems as part of my job. So, the first question is, liability. Can I be held liable for anything left undone (much of their stuff was still in development stages, and against my best wishes they forced a public release) in an as-is state when I resigned from that company?
Next, on the day I resigned, I also filed a complaint with OSHA. Outside of the above issues, the major and final reason I decided to quit was due to health concerns. I had assurances and guarantees that I would be protected from harassment and threats. Yet it seems the agent who called basically gave them my name, so another threatening call from the owner came through. This time I picked up rather than waited for the voice mail to pick it up and let this guy vent.
I need to know what the heck to do on this. Is there a place I can go to complain against OSHA for not following it's own whistle blower guidelines because this has just made things even worse than the initial accusations of sabotaging their systems. Now the guy is even more erratic and irrational than before, up to and including my typing this at 3am because I don't know if he will show up at the door with a gun in hand at this point or not. I have a wife to protect, and the man is crazy enough to do something very drastic.
What should I do?
First and foremost, I was forced to quit without choice due to health concerns amongst other ongoing issues and abuses at work. When I did, I then learned about my rights under OSHA and filed a complaint. OSHA then called my old employer and apparently their first question to them was if they recently let someone go. The VP mentions my name, and the agent "acknowledged" my name to him. I specifically stated on the complaint to NOT mention me at all as I feared severe retaliation which has now happened in the form of legal threats amongst other things from the owner of the company.
To go back a bit, I have been planning to quit my job for a while due to a complete and utter negligence in making it a safe work environment, and also complete disaster in management to the point I could not conduct my duties as IT director at the company. Thursday the 23rd was the final straw and I decided to resign immediately. No one at that company has any idea how the internet or networks work, so when their website went down and I no longer was there to fix it, the owner left threatening messages at 2am and 4am early Friday morning, which had I not turned my phone off I would have been woken up by, in regards to how he is going to sue me for sabotage and he reported me to the FBI and all this mess. Failures of their systems happened on a regular basis of which I took care of quickly with a quick restart of these systems as part of my job. So, the first question is, liability. Can I be held liable for anything left undone (much of their stuff was still in development stages, and against my best wishes they forced a public release) in an as-is state when I resigned from that company?
Next, on the day I resigned, I also filed a complaint with OSHA. Outside of the above issues, the major and final reason I decided to quit was due to health concerns. I had assurances and guarantees that I would be protected from harassment and threats. Yet it seems the agent who called basically gave them my name, so another threatening call from the owner came through. This time I picked up rather than waited for the voice mail to pick it up and let this guy vent.
I need to know what the heck to do on this. Is there a place I can go to complain against OSHA for not following it's own whistle blower guidelines because this has just made things even worse than the initial accusations of sabotaging their systems. Now the guy is even more erratic and irrational than before, up to and including my typing this at 3am because I don't know if he will show up at the door with a gun in hand at this point or not. I have a wife to protect, and the man is crazy enough to do something very drastic.
What should I do?
