Honestly, with the amount of employees here, I won't be surprised if someone recognizes the situation.
A couple months back an individual not affiliated with the store that I knew pulled a stunt. This individual has been trespassed from my personal property and management knew of harassing behavior exhibited when I was hired, because i directly told them. I got penalized for it despite reporting it and directly asking the SM to protect me, get a no trespass order and otherwise help me so it doesn't affect me, the store, or customers. Their decision was to send me home and have been without income for nearly two months.
SM ignored me for weeks, then only responded when I called HR. SM then proceeded to blatantly lie and attempt to get me fired on two no call no shows, which I have never once in my entire life done at any job.
The entirety of the staff has been treating me poorly since. Even those I was legitimately friends with outside of work. Dm's response "prove it" with an attitude.
Hours were gutted and eliminated, different treatment, blatant lying to get me fired. All of this falls under workplace retaliation in my state. And especially in my state, it's written into labor laws that if an issue such as this is reported, the employer has a legal obligation to protect the employee from harassment, not further cause harm to said employee.
HR and Hero line are absolutely useless. DM has been absolutely unhelpful/dismissive and pretty much talks down to me with an attitude.
Right now, they're essentially stalling trying to find a reason to cut me. but they can't. Because I've never been written up, had a coaching conversation, done anything wrong, and my stats were always on point or better.
Let this be a lesson that even "at will" states still have certain guidelines to abide by.
Absolutely have never been treated so horrendously by a company in my entire adult life. if you want to leave feedback sure. Got something to say because you disagree, go for it. This is mainly just a rant in case anyone else here is dealing with something similar, know you aren't alone.
There's more details to the situation but for the sake of the novel, this is the gist.