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FIRED WITHOUT NOTICE
A Pennsylvania worker discovers they were fired without notice after raising racial bias claims, contending managers ignored warnings as access vanished and resignation paperwork arrived by mail.
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The next morning, the worker showed up for a job in Pennsylvania and found their badge access gone.
They couldn't get onto the property. They had to turn around and go home.
Only later did the paperwork arrive: a notice by mail and email saying they had "voluntarily resigned," along with "next steps of cobra coverage, etc."
But the worker says they never resigned. They say they were fired without notice after complaining, again, that a superior treated them differently because of race.
According to the post, this was the second complaint in two years. The first one had started with comments the superior allegedly made about the worker's race: "race looks like trouble before we even speak," along with "some other inappropriate comments that cornered me."
The worker says that complaint triggered "a training course on diversity in the workplace" for the superior. When the issue was raised to a manager, the manager "didn't look happy." The worker also says that manager was "newly a manager at that time."
Then came the second incident.
The worker says the same superior kept talking over them in pre-floor meetings, cutting them off again and again "to the point that I stopped participating." In the post, the worker wrote: "I can never speak up in our pre floor meetings because he will instantly talk over me, or interrupt me."
After that, the worker messaged the manager and said it felt "frustrating," "targeted," and tied to race, "it is because of my race," they wrote, pointing back to "the first infraction."
There was no reply.
"No reply, called and no answer," the worker wrote.
The next day, the badge no longer worked.
With no access and no explanation, the worker says they kept trying to reach the manager by phone and text. Still nothing.
Then came the letter and email saying they had "voluntarily resigned."
The worker, now outside the company looking in, turned to the internet with a blunt question: "Do I have a case at all?" They asked whether they should "bother contacting a lawyer for a consultation," noted they were in an "at will employment state," and said they felt "SOL."