Need advocates to help me... I feel alone in my fight against a huge company

[Zerotolerance]

I work for a huge company! I reported abuse and sexual herassment. I experienced brow beating, name calling, inappropriate touching, stealing, retaliation, catcalling, manipulation to get my food for my guests. I reported to my union, manager and Human resources. I reported 3 cooks that are married and a hostile work environment among co workers and sexual herassment. I didn't know my boss was having an affair with one of them. We were good friends and I was VIOLENTLY herassed and my name was defamated. Some of my coworkers knew about the affair and took advantage of that. I filed with a government agency but I had to be patient. I was treated horribly, and due to my work issues I got PTSD. They would whistle, make horn noises, single in solidarity in Spanish and drop pans. I begged for accomedations and because of the defamation I recieved non eventhough this was not in their job description. I searched for advocates as every door was shut on me in this big company. I forced to file for no accommodations because I was told they had meeting against me and it brought them joy to do these things ...Eventhough my condition worsened and I didn't know I had PTSD. I couldn't breath and would panic and stop functioning and the same happened when someone would keep repeating something due to the brow beatings I used to receive. You gotta wait over and over 20 times. You gotta have a ticket over and over 20 times. Foods getting cold over and over 20 times. Your not the manager over and over 20 times. It's sad that they make free food for coworkers and people participating in not being truthful and not stepping in. They also recieved this abuse and I made a better work environment for them! No one is a winner in this case even though my the government came back in my favor. I was given a 20 min break or I had to go home. There are still managers that discriminated and participated melicously who are still there. How do I move on and deal with something they don't understand that broke my heart and they let happen. I worked for this company for 22 years ...No zero tolerance memo's no nothing. This a huge problem in alot of kitchens. I wanted to help others and make a difference but instead I worsened my anxiety and health to the point of suscide on 2 or more occasions. I get anxiety attacks before going into work and still have to work with managers that discriminated and instigated problems with me constantly. I'm a great person/ human and I don't understand how this is allowed to go on! I wanted to advocate for others and I can't even help myself! I have ADHD, depression, PTSD and anxiety.

[aber218deen]

Hi zerotolerance, wow, you have a lot on your plate in your workplace!! I can totally resonate with your current situation, and have all the sympathy in the world as I understand how evil some sorry excuses for human beings can be!! I would just like to reassure you that these people are extremely immature and massively ignorant and they really don’t deserve to breathe the same air as you!! I can understand how difficult it can be when you are in a situation where one idiot starts their childish behavior,usually if the people around this asshole are on their level,they start going down to their level and start encouraging them without even realizing,and the situation just snowballs, and these fools don’t have a brain cell between them to be able to change the situation for the good, so the bottom line is see these people imbeciles and tell yourself again and again how much better a human being you are compared to those losers!! I read that you know you are a million miles better a human being than your so called work colleagues, but you have to keep pumping this information into your brain repeatedly to train your brain to finally except your an a amazing person with so much to offer in your life that can not only make your life better but you can help others with your good heart! We definitely need to stick together and fight this sort of poison and eradicate it from our society!! I hope things start getting better for you soon,so you can get on with the fantastic effort you are already giving for the greater good! Hopefully some others will give you some great ideas on how they would handle this situation!! Take care zerotolerance. John.

[copasedic in reply to aber218deen]

Is a lawsuit a possibility? I wouldn’t normally advocate this route, but it seems to be your only option at this point.