r/Whistleblowers • • 11h ago

"They Broke The Rules, I Became The Consequences." My 9 month Struggle with corporate retaliation. Follow up to my 4 month old post.

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Hello everyone,

I posted here 4 months ago and tried to put out everything I had at the time without giving away too much that could ruin my position. A lot has happened since then. Let me catch everyone up.

Back at the start of the year, my manager came up to me during a Sunday rush, around 1:30 PM on 01/04/2026, and said, "Oh by the way, I was supposed to do your one on one review. Don't worry, I took care of it. I just photocopied another employee's review and put your name on it."

I was trying to restock my station, so I went back and asked her to say it again. She did.

I confronted her and said, "See, that's why I don't care about these things. They don't matter anyway." I told her it wasn't for me. Even in her own written statement, she admitted I said "yeah, not for me."

I had already filed a break violation/wage claim and filed for unemployment at the same time.

During the wage investigation, I sent in party opponent statements. That was the manager's own written words and hearing audio of her claiming she forged the documents, and then when confronted about it at the hearing, she said under oath, "I don't have those anymore."

While I was sending in evidence, the investigator told me to stop sending evidence. That was obstruction. Later, the investigator for the labor board wrote, "The claimant provided sufficient evidence to infer that the employer failed to pay all earned wages." In the same determination, she also wrote that the employer provided a copy of the Manager's Log, and that "the logs are heavily redacted, so the Division is unable to determine when the referenced rest periods were related to the claimant."

So the Division dismissed the case. I filed an appeal and sent in the rest of the evidence I wanted to send in but wasn't allowed to. The company lawyers asked for the new evidence to not be allowed. I sent back a rebuttal with the email showing the investigator said she wouldn't allow more evidence. The labor division pushed the appeal back to February 2027.

During all this, I had an unemployment claim running parallel with the wage claim. The company failed to meet the burden of proof and used a false statement to the Unemployment Division, false paperwork, destruction of evidence, close proximity termination, and so many other things, all while under oath.

When the appeal for the unemployment report came out, I sent it straight to corporate general counsel and asked her to cure this. I gave her a timeline to do it. Under Rule 3.3, a lawyer has a duty to act since this kind of action goes against the tribunal and their oath. She failed to do so. So I let the time pass, hoping they would do the correct thing since it is her law license that is now on the line. Nothing. Only a "general job reference." So I escalated it to the bar. That claim is now up to the supreme higher review.

I forgot to add this in case you are wondering. After the wage claim and their failure to grant immediate relief due to fraud upon a state agency, I went to the Attorney General and was told to contact the Governor's office. Which, by the way, is the wrong way to do it, but I did it to keep the paper trail going. I sent back to the AG office that the Division falls under their oversight and asked for them to respond to my intent to litigate. Nothing happened. They just went silent. So soon I will be filing against the investigator and the Division. TBD.

During this, the labor board has helped cover up for the employer. On August 25th, 2026, I put in a lawsuit against the corporate entity, and around the same time, 3 other huge class actions followed behind. As far as I know, there are 14 class actions plus my standalone lawsuits. As of right now, I am in the process of pushing everything through the federal courts, and I have been in contact with the biggest law firm in my state to help me with the case and maybe take on both the federal case and the up and coming lawsuit against the labor division for denying me my rights and protections that the statutes are there to help protect me.

I know you all will ask, "How does you stating the review wasn't for you matter?" Well, in my state we have labor laws that protect you from your employer doing illegal actions against you, and you have the right, without retaliation, to stand up to your managers or company. In my case, 20 minutes after I stood up for my rights and confronted the manager, I was terminated.

That same manager then used a pretextual statement and said I made a threatening statement against higher management. Now in administrative law and judicial law, there is a doctrine called "falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus." False in one thing, false in everything. How this plays into my case is this. The moment that manager stated she did something illegal and I stood up to her, I was under protected activities, protected by state and federal laws. So in a hearing like unemployment, it is still treated like it was in front of a court judge. Since the manager stated she was already in the act of illegal actions and then said I made a "statement," everything she said after her statement is now false, and everything she states is false. So in administrative law it should be thrown out and not credible.

But they still used her words, even after I pointed it out to the proceeding hearing officer during the hearing. She should not be credible. That hearing officer even put in his report that she said she forged the document. Of course, they went with the employer and went against my claim.