Ditto on checking the company policy on this sort of thing. And get a lawyer.
Hang in there - you know you didn’t do anything wrong, so don’t beat yourself up about it. Stay strong.
Once, in the army overseas, I worked in a psych ward. Night shift. One of the female patients accused me of “touching her while she slept.” Immediate suspension and transfer to another ward in the hospital. During the month long investigation, I became persona non grata to everybody in the hospital, even my friends. Only my girlfriend stuck by me, because she knew I would never do anything like that.
Eventually, the patient broke down and admitted she lied because she didn’t want to be in the hospital. The g/f met somebody else, and I made new friends who didn’t know about the incident. But I still couldn’t get a date with anybody else in the hospital after that.
As an aside, the ex g/f and I are still friends to this day.
Again, hang in there. You can beat this. Let TPTB investigate all they want. Hopefully, they’ll find the truth.
Today I did clear a few things up. If I am cleared, I will get my back pay and I know who the person is that will be doing the investigation, however, I still do not know what exactly, I am accused of.
I know that I have not done anything to hurt anyone in any way, but I am still living in a horrible state. I don’t know why anyone would accuse me of this and I am afraid of losing my job over it.
I’m told I should be contacted by the investigator by Friday.
Even if you are cleared, I think you need to take this week to prepare yourself for how you continue on in your career after this. You don’t ever want to be in this situation again, I’d say.
I’m just subscribing to the thread to hear what happened. I certainly hope that not returning to the board since that last post is not a sign of something bad.
I went for the interview on Thursday afternoon and I described exactly what happened. I was also asked to write a statement, which I did, explaining my actions.
Again, I didn’t do any thing that I have been accused of.
The investigator told me she would submit the report to the COO on Friday and I would have to wait for her decision.
I still haven’t heard anything, but trying to keep positve, I checked my company’s website and my job is not posted as an open position as of Friday afternoon.
I really doubt telling that is a good idea at this point. It’s better to be sure everything is over. Somethings are better not being fully reveled to the public even when the event is over.
The HR lady told me to come to the office tomorrow afternoon and she and the COO would discuss the matter with me. I asked her if they have made a decision and she told that they did, but she couldn’t get into details at this time.
I got frustrated at this and I asked her “You can’t tell me if I am still employed or not?” She said yes, I was still employed, but she wouldn’t say anything further on the matter.
So tomorrow I will know what they’ve decided. I know that I didn’t do anything I’ve been accused of. It seems as if this might be my word against the word of another staff who was working with me at the time.
She was not in in the room consistently at the time of the problem. I have had an exceptionally good record as long as I have been with the company and the other staff has been with us for less than 6 months.
However, I have spend the week looking for another job and the reality is that I may have to go back, even if I am demoted, but on the up side I have an interview for next Friday with a company that is a lot closer to where I live.
Come on, they pretty much have to check this out if reported to them. Not reporting results over the phone is SOP. Give them a chance to present their findings before you think the worst of management.
Friday as in this past, i.e., 10/23, or as in you have to wait until **this **Friday, 10/30?