Here's the situation, my current job is known for it's office politics. The company is a call center and is also known for it's filthiness, general incompetence, and the aforementioned office politics. They're working on fixing the filthiness and possibly the incompetence. Anyway, a few months ago an employee, call him Alex, found a link on the internal network (accessible by anyone who worked there) to private information of employees, like date of birth, address, and social security number. This information was for the people in the call center and seemingly everyone in the country who was employed by the call center. He told my former supervisor. This company, being the rather short-sited, fired the employee and the supervisor in a blatant "cover-your-ass" move, if it were me, I would have given thanks for pointing it out. They had known about this network folder for a while, and were using it for some purpose, but it was accessible to anyone. This is where I get involved somehow. Anyway, I was good friends with my former supervisor Adam and my co-worker Alex, and when they fired Alex they gave him a paycheck. He gets direct deposit and didn't look at what he thought was his stub until he got home. It turns out it was my paycheck. I videotaped my adventure to get the paycheck back from Alex. Needless to say I was dumbfounded. I had the feeling they had it out for me for a while, as I am not very good at social interaction and am generally weird, but so are a number of people who work in technical support. I also have a tendency to argue when I feel I'm being treated unjustly, as I used to be a pushover.
Anyway, fast forward a little to today, here recently I've had a run-in with a hot headed co-worker who holds a grudge, call him James. I interrupted him speaking it seems. Now I can lose my cool sometimes, but my anger is fleeting; I have no problem with forgiveness and second chances. I apologized to this person in writing, which is further than any other person would have gone. Later on I also hurt the feelings of a female co-worker in a phone call during off hours. She told me as much at work. My supervisor told me that the other team's supervisor told her to tell me that I was not to bother them why they were on calls. Later on, to make amends to my female co-worker I brought her a coffee drink and dropped it off at her desk, as to not interrupt, this caused her supervisor to flip out. She marched me over to HR who told me since I was surplussed for the day (sent home due to low calls) not to hang out once I'm off the clock and not to venture in to the section for the other calling campaign.
So I did not bother them while they were on calls, nor did venture in to there area, but recently I did speak to one of the agents near their area, this was someone else, as I as avoiding the other two as not to cause a hostile work environment, make waves or generally be unwanted. This was before their work was to begin for the day. We work in an open floor with cubicles, no barriers. I feel their supervisor and James have a grudge against me. James at one point cursed on the call floor and later on threatened to "rip my arms off." I have a witness or two to back this up. Our job has a policy in place for dealing with write-ups, called a ROC for record of contact and also written corrective forms. I was not written up for anything relating to this at all. Now I'm suspended for some reason (soon fired perhaps), probably for talking to my co-workers.
PS, I'm in an at-will state AFAIK.
Anyway, fast forward a little to today, here recently I've had a run-in with a hot headed co-worker who holds a grudge, call him James. I interrupted him speaking it seems. Now I can lose my cool sometimes, but my anger is fleeting; I have no problem with forgiveness and second chances. I apologized to this person in writing, which is further than any other person would have gone. Later on I also hurt the feelings of a female co-worker in a phone call during off hours. She told me as much at work. My supervisor told me that the other team's supervisor told her to tell me that I was not to bother them why they were on calls. Later on, to make amends to my female co-worker I brought her a coffee drink and dropped it off at her desk, as to not interrupt, this caused her supervisor to flip out. She marched me over to HR who told me since I was surplussed for the day (sent home due to low calls) not to hang out once I'm off the clock and not to venture in to the section for the other calling campaign.
So I did not bother them while they were on calls, nor did venture in to there area, but recently I did speak to one of the agents near their area, this was someone else, as I as avoiding the other two as not to cause a hostile work environment, make waves or generally be unwanted. This was before their work was to begin for the day. We work in an open floor with cubicles, no barriers. I feel their supervisor and James have a grudge against me. James at one point cursed on the call floor and later on threatened to "rip my arms off." I have a witness or two to back this up. Our job has a policy in place for dealing with write-ups, called a ROC for record of contact and also written corrective forms. I was not written up for anything relating to this at all. Now I'm suspended for some reason (soon fired perhaps), probably for talking to my co-workers.
PS, I'm in an at-will state AFAIK.
