# Accused of abuse and neglect **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 17, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accused-of-abuse-and-neglect/514103 "2009-10-17T00:29:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accused-of-abuse-and-neglect/514103/61 "2009-10-29T17:04:44Z")
So an employee could constantly lie about another employee, accusations that suspend that person’s pay, and \*\*never \*\*be disciplined for it? That’s kind of fucked up. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accused-of-abuse-and-neglect/514103/62 "2009-10-29T17:08:45Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > That’s kind of fucked up. Like being slightly pregnant, but that’s the way it is. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accused-of-abuse-and-neglect/514103/63 "2009-10-29T19:28:29Z")
I mean, presumably that person could get put on a very tight leash and written up for every single legitimate infraction going forward so the organization could establish a case for firing them that couldn’t be considered retaliatory, but jeeze. ---
**Author:** ![Translucent\_Daydream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/translucent_daydream/32/16170_2.png) [@Translucent\_Daydream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Translucent_Daydream)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accused-of-abuse-and-neglect/514103/64 "2009-10-30T13:34:20Z")
> [@dragongirl](#): > > I had to meet with my director and the head of HR as well as the COO this afternoon. I am reinstated as manager at the group home again starting tomorrow. The charges were found to be unsubstantiated and I will get my back pay. However, they asked me to take an abuse and neglect class which I will be doing, due to “something the accuser thought she may have heard”. > > I suppose that I should be happy about this, but I am not. Instead I’m depressed. I’ve been crying all week trying to figure out what I did that was so horrible, but still knowing that I didn’t do anything. The company’s policy of not giving me any support during any of this and not even telling me what I was accused of has left a very bad taste in my mouth. > > The staff that made the accusation is one that I had to write up a few weeks ago for a repeated problem and I feel that she made this accusation to get even with me. In addition to that, I discovered that my assistant has taken my name off all of the email while I’ve been out and I feel very betrayed. > > I do not know how to go back and try to resume things as normal again tomorrow. I’m not even sure I want to go back. This has put me behind on a lot of bills, it’s put me through horrible stress, I make an incredibly sad amount of money, I cannot afford medical benefits and I am on call 5 days a week and several times had to go back to assist in some problem without getting paid for it. > > I hope that things go well at the interview I have next week and I am able to work elsewhere. _gathering up the SDMB good ol’ boys_ _stretching_ _poppin’ knuckles_ _spinning tire iron_ Okay, who was she with the retaliation accusation and _what does she drive??_ In all seriousness, I hope the other job works out. Once the jerk/jerkess realizes how much she can f with your chi by laying down some bullcrap to the powers that be, its not a good place to work anymore. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accused-of-abuse-and-neglect/514103.md?page=3)