I have gotten no response to the complaint about Labor Ready, the Framingham Adesa car auction and the Lynnway Auto Auction that I sent to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.
I have no work references. I was harassed at every workplace where I tried to be employed for the last five years. My work history reads:
Fired
Fired
Quit
That is not a work history that employers like; how am I supposed to get another job?
The person at human resources at the Framingham Adesa auction absolutely lied to Labor Ready, telling Labor Ready that I had slapped a dealer at the auction. It was a total lie; she fabricated the entire story. What I had done was talk to her about being harassed while driving cars for the auction; the next time that I was at that auction, she called me to her office, said that someone from Labor Ready had told her that I slapped a dealer, and told me that I had to leave the property. During that same conversation, she told me that it was one of Adesa's employees who told her that I had slapped a dealer.
Because I had gotten to that auction by being driven there by another Labor Ready employee who was still driving, I had no way of getting to Boston from the auction if I just walked off the property. So, I was made to wait in an Adesa office, with a police officer present as if I actually had slapped someone, until the manager of one of the Labor Ready offices could leave his office and pick me up.
That human resources person at Adesa LIED about me, and her lie got me fired. The office manager of the Quincy branch, who was not the manager who got me from the Adesa auction, had always allowed people to harass me at the Quincy site. He also was so rude to me when I first called about work that it took my talking to someone from Labor Ready's corporate human resources office to get work from the Quincy office at all. The day that I was fired, he told me that I had "made similar complaints" about being harassed before, and indicated that all of my concerns about being harassed were always baseless.
At the Lynnway auction, prior to my being lied about at the Adesa auction, one of the Lynnway employees kept putting his arm around me; on my back, my neck, my shoulders. I stepped away from him and he just keep doing it until I told him to stop it. When I told his supervisor, the supervisor did not take it seriously, saying "That's just him. He does that to everybody." Then the man who had touched me called me a liar. I told the security manager and other supervisors at the auction what happened. The next time that I was at that auction, the former branch manager of the South Boston Lanor Ready office told me that "They don't want you on the property; you can't even go into the building." Then, I was followed off the premises by someone driving cart #9.
I reported all of this to MCAD, and have gotten no response, not even an acknowledgement that I sent the report.
Copyright L. Kochman, May 28, 2015 @ 8:55 a.m.
