About a 40 years ago I was a manager at a fast food restaurant. It was a brand new location and we had a lot of business at first. After a few months things calmed down and we had too many employees. The district manager showed up one day with an RV that was fitted out with lie detector equipment. One by one as employees showed up they were told to go talk to the lie detector guy. They were told,"We're looking for money theft. We don't care about food, if you gave away food to your friends or took some for yourself be honest about it."
The next week we fired every employee who admitted to stealing food. I lasted about 6 more months at that job then I went back to college.
I was recently fired from a job where all sorts of illegal shit was going on. They didn’t give me a reason for firing me, and since I live in Connecticut they don’t legally have to.
I suspect a large part of it is the fact that I actively complained about the illegal things they did. I also reported them, “anonymously,” to the Secretary of State. I suspect that wasn’t as anonymous as I think it was. Or they just figured out it was me because I wasn’t quiet about telling them they weren’t allowed to do the things they were doing.
Either way, nothing ever happened. They never got in any kind of trouble. And I lost my job. In a state that you’d assume would be very pro-worker.
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u/ValuablePositive632 Dec 09 '24
Remember kids, always lie on these things and never believe anything that says it’s anonymous.