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I wouldn't count on that.

If they're not well-liked the bosses might even come down on them harder than you'd anticipate. Places don't like to keep crash-outs around, because they worry it will be a pattern of behaviour, not an isolated incident.

The fact that worst case scenarios (or worst likely case) can occur doesn't mean one should assume they're the probable outcome.

If someone tries to hit you with a forklift and there's evidence of it being intentional it would be shocking if they weren't fired. Even if there wasn't evidence of it being intentional your employer would want to deal with it before you get OSHA involved because you'd absolutely need to file a complaint with OSHA over that.





That might be something you could bring up with OSHA too, especially if there's a pattern of them intimidating you into doing tasks you've got a doctor's note specifically saying you can't do.

Like seriously, they're taking advantage of the pessimism and catastrophizing features of autism, depression and anxiety that make you especially unlikely to fight back. Some lawyer would probably take your case on the basis of believing they could take a big chunk of the settlement that results because of how bad it will reflect on Home Depot.

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The assistant manager did not say "if you fail to lift this one hundred pound litterbox in ten seconds I will fire you". She said "I don't think it is fifty pounds". "I don't think" makes any statement correct.

Besides I didn't take it on audio tape so I could not "prove" she said that. Furthermore th state I live in requires two parties to consent to audio tapes, so I legally could not tape record anyone else. Besides the assistant manager could deny she said that.

Besides home Depot has its own lawyers and maybe they earn more money than any lawyer I could afford to hire myself. (Because I earn minimum wage)

Neither you nor I know what a lawyer would do or what the verdict would be. I am not a lawyer. Different lawyers and different judges respond differently to the same thing

Besides it takes a lot of time, money, and energy to hire a lawyer. The outcome is not guaranteed, even if you have the moral high road

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Meanwhile my boss, last week, had the nerve to tell me that the head cashier couldn't find me in the parking lot and if it happens again she is writing a paper trail. (Rolls eyes). The parking lot has a lot of blind spots and not all parts of the parking lot are visible from all other parts of the parking lot, I told her. But "at will" employer. Micromanaging is not illegal and being unreasonable and factually wrong is not illegal either

Overpowered outnumbered outsmarted as usual

Defeatism is a mind-killer.

A couple years ago, (FES/CXM/ASM) dsmith, had the nerve to tell an associate, that if the associate gave her a "link", she would give him a Homer Award. (political corruption)

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yesterday, while i was trying to sweep, head cashier angela d came and gave me a Bravo award that said thank you for your "improvement". (rolls eyes). my performance was good enough before the front end supervisor had the nerve to bark @ me last week. plenty of head cashiers and supervisors said i did a "good job".

a couple weeks ago, head cashier angela told me to push the carts in Receiving. I pushed some of them. some of the carts had bubble wrap on the underside and handle and i had to get the cart key and scissors and cut off the bubble wrap. then it was almost my "fifth hour" so i had to go to lunch and i told angela i was going on lunch and she had the nerve to ask me "did you not push the carts in Receiving?". (rolls eyes). angela did not know how many carts there were. she only knew that there WERE carts. if there were 100 carts and i pushed 98 of them, she would not have given me an "A". she would've said that i did not push the carts in Receiving. she was doing her "best", she wasn't doing anything illegal or immoral or against SOP or anything like that.

yesterday @ 4:40pm angela called lot attendant ben and me on the walkie talkie and told us to push the carts in Receiving and Lumber and i pushed some of them. then i told ASM javier and head cashier angela that i pushed some of the carts, not all the carts, and i had to clock out because of the schedule. (good thing i considered their perspective. otherwise, home depot would've used that as an excuse for a writeup or termination). (rolls eyes).

yes, it is good to consider someone else's perspective. however, every situation has an infinite number of perspectives, and i have no moral or legal or occupational obligation to constantly take all the pespectives into account, in real time.

Home depot doesn't tell you some things that it should tell you

For example just today I asked the Receiving supervisor if I could go through the back door from now on, even though it has an alarm on it. She said yes. However I don't think I am going to do that, because what if (1) she was mistaken (2) she purposely told me "yes" because she is trying to get me made redundant (3) the policy changes tomorrow.

What if I go through the alarmed door tomorrow and an ASM says you are not allowed to do that and gets me made redundant? I could say the receiving supervisor said I could do that and she could deny it

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