Entertaining a wrongful termination lawsuit

[gateway209]

In retrospect, I am kinda glad this happened. It was a very toxic workplace, not just for me, but for others. I feel I am much better off and I have some very good prospects for future employment and am taking my time in trying to pick the right one.

Despite moving on, I was debating the merits of a lawsuit but would agree with most here, it would probably be an exercise in futility and very expensive. Besides, this 'hospital' has some pretty big guns for attorneys. I would never be able to prove my assertions because all I have is circumstantial.

A question I have, though, does HR with large, or any, employers, generally rubber stamp whatever managers want regardless of the truth? I didn't feel that the HR 'business partner' as they call them at this location, was the least bit interested in due process. Her goal was to facilitate the wishes of these two managers regardless of the truth.

[helpmeout]

I have emails I sent with patient safety concerns. None were ever addressed by the supervisors. There is a mechanism at this hospital where you can anonymously submit concerns without any fear of retribution. It's required by all of the regulating agencies. I chose not to remain anonymous.

Do you have any e-mails back from them stating that you need to stop or else? What you have is very iffy and not a direct link.

[gateway209]

There were no responses to my emails. When I started feeling that 'something was up', I forwarded all of my work emails related to this to my home email address. A few weeks after being terminated, I read some of them. I really think that sending the emails to my supervisor and CC'ing the department director is why they elected to dismiss me because, I guess, they didn't like 'noisemakers'.

It appears the timing of their effort to start 'prosecuting' me was after the emails went out. Also, I submitted an entry into the hospital's system, Quantros in this case, for documenting events that are aberrations from standard practice that could be potentially harmful to staff or patients. The event that I submitted, in my opinion, was a 'sentinel event'. This is defined as 'an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof.' I could have submitted this anonymously but I took ownership of it. In hindsight, this was a mistake. It was after this that things started to go a very different direction for me. I still can't prove this is the reason but it sure is pretty coincidental. I just don't think anything would hold up in court.