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Unfortunately, getting fired without a reason can happen to just about anyone. In many cases, unless there is a contract or bargaining agreement, employees are considered covered under employment at will, which means your employer doesn't need a reason to fire you.
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I work for a delivery company. A few months back me and a manager were good friends. At a Christmas party(sounds clique but it just happen to be) we kissed and after that we stayed like friends with benefits not wanting to date a coworker. I slept over one night and she wanted to do stuff but I said I didn’t want to. She got mad and made me leave. We go back to working together and we don’t talk but there isn’t any issue(as far as I knew). While this was going on she was still training for her manager spot because she was new at it.
She would come up short for money every night and the GM aske her what was happening and come to find out she has been saying I’ve been stealing the money that she’s been short. A week or two later I accidentally cancelled something I wasn’t supposed to so i got in trouble, rightfully so. Once I came back from my suspension the GM wanted to talk to be about it and the girl manager was there too. We started talking about how the GM has been told I do a bad job doing a closing task so I will no longer be closing. Thing is, what I’m accused of doing bad isn’t my task, it’s the other closers task todo and I told them that I’ve never done that to do a bad job in the first place. Come to find out the girl manager was the one telling the GM that I was doing a bad job and didn’t listen to her and so on, so she wouldn’t have to close with me any more. And now she keeps on discriminating against me by yelling at me, sending me home way before people before me should go home and is just Doig everything she can to make the work place as much hell for me and no one else. So I confronted her and I admit I should have bite my tongue but I said she was ACTING bitchy not that she was a bitch, and she said she is going to write me up for it? One can she do that? I didn’t call her a name or anything wrong, I used a word she may not have liked. And is there any action I can take to stop this or get her out of management position?