Thursday, October 23, 2008

Don't Support Verizon

I should start this story at the beginning. Nathan (my husband) works for Verizon. Everyone in his team had to switch partners in September. Immediately his new partner started giving him problems. Makes rude harassing statements to women that are very offencive. He has threatened Nathan, supposedly teasingly while holding a rusty old scythe. After this Nathan went to his Supervisor. His supervisor told him too bad you will get a new partner in three months. Over the month of October multiple horrible comments and demeaning remarks have be made about and too Nathan. Finally yesterday his partner yelled at him and threatened to "beat his ass with a baseball bat". Nathan rightly had had enough and went to his supervisor this morning and was told BY A SUPERVISOR that Nathan was being a whining High Schooler and he couldn't babysit. Now Nathan is being investigated because he complained. Complained because he was threatened with bodily harm MULTIPLY TIMES!!!! How could a company allow this? And if that weren't enough his partner during the yelling at him part told Nathan that he was told by the supervisor that Nathan had asked to talk to HR. Which is A none of his business and B didn't even have to do with the situation. Not to mention that the supervisor never acknowledged Nathan or gave him the number he asked for. I am so upset by all this. You hear about this happening sometimes but you think that will never happen, my company has a no harassment policy. Yeah well so dose Verizon, apparently that doesn't mean anything.

1 comment:

hope said...

Uc! That really bites. Fortunately I am not with Verizon. Unfortunately, tha is the wireless proveider that the government ses for it's civil servants, including Shawn.
Guess you can't win the all.