Monday, August 15, 2011

Personal Injury Lawyer to Sue your Favorite Boss (lol)

Came across this tonight and had a long laugh. Here's 5 tips for suing your boss: http://www.calaborlaw.com/2007/11/11/top-5-tips-so-you-want-to-sue-your-boss-2/


Top 5 Tips: So You Want to Sue Your Boss?

So you want to sue your employer for racial discrimination, sexual harassment, whistleblower retaliation, failure to pay you your last paycheck, what have you. Now what? Here are five tips all clients should keep in mind before they pick up the phone to call a lawyer.
summons1 Top 5 Tips: So You Want to Sue Your Boss?Tip 1Write it, don’t say it. People think it’s enough to complain, request or report things orally to their employer. They complain about discrimination to HR over the phone. Or they tell their supervisor about a health and safety code violation. Well, what are you going to do when HR or the supervisor denies you ever talked with them? Don’t believe it? Happens all the time. Avoid the “he said, she said” by communicating with your employer by emails or send letters (certified mail, return receipt requested). By doing this, you create a record.
Tip 2Keep a journal. Don’t rely on memory, write everything down. The names of witnesses, dates, times, places, what was said, documents involved – the more detailed the better. And be professional about it. Don’t write that your boss is a %*&@! in the journal, because the journal could become evidence. Another thing, don’t leave the journal on your desk or in your desk drawer at work where your boss can find it. You might end up fired and your lawsuit dead.
Tip 3Get witnesses. Emails, memos and letters are one form of key evidence in a lawsuit. Witnesses are the other. When your boss calls you a racial slur, pats you on the rear, or threatens to fire you because you reported him for illegal activity, talk to whoever witnessed it. Confirm whether they saw it. Try to get them on your side. Do this carefully and your case will have just gotten a lot stronger.
Tip 4Don’t play lawyer. So you went to the internet and learned that “retaliation”, “hostile work environment” and “whistleblowing” are magic words. That doesn’t mean you should go waving those terms around in your emails and conversations at the workplace like your sword and shield. Don’t play lawyer. Chances are, your employer’s lawyer will be better at it than you are and if, as is likely, you get it all wrong, you’re the one who could come off looking like the bully, not the employer. Get a lawyer instead.
Tip 5Don’t get mad, get even (or turn the other cheek). You’re being treated outrageously by your co-workers, your supervisors or the owners of your company, or maybe all of them. You’re depressed, scared and . . . spitting mad! To quote Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman, you want to take a flamethrower to the place! That’s fine if you want to end up in jail and without a lawsuit. Otherwise, take a deep breath, follow tips 1 to 4, and call an attorney. That momentary lapse where you curse your boss out like a sailor in front of your entire office could mean you no longer have a case.
More tips to come, but if you follow these five, you will be way ahead of the game. And your lawyer will thank you for it.

12 comments:

  1. Now honestly guys, your best bet is to try to be a team player or just leave before you get settled in. This is more of an extreme circumstance/last resort kind of thing. Going to court is a pain in the ass, trust me.

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  2. I can't agree with this post more. Document, Keep Record, Make it official!

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  3. Been there, done it. Good advice, bring in the Union I say!

    mufc

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  4. Yep, keep records. If it really gets that bad you better keep info about every single thing that occurred.

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  5. Thanks, this might come in handy haha. good post

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  6. Yep, not enough people have physical evidence for these kinds of things which makes it harder for themselves in the future.

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  7. Actually delt with this at a previous job, Kept a record of everything inside a hidden file in the ACT database :P Pictures audio recordings emails from other employees as witnesses. Saved my ass when he tried to blame some illegal and illicit activities on me.

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  8. not much into the whole sueing thing....

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  9. Thanks for the advice. Hopefully I won't need it.
    +followed

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  10. I guess if you have to get ahead nowadays, you either gotta be good at sports, or sue. Good post.

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  11. Wow, great advice! If this ever happens to me, I know where to go! Don't take shit from anyone, especially when there's money to be made, lol. Can't wait till your Philosophy blog is up, I love Philosophy, especially ethical questions. Follow +1

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