I warn you now this LONG. So long in fact I had to type it up in word and cut and paste so that I didn’t have to keep going back and adding details. I know this is probably against the rules, but I’m sorry, really sorry…Hope you can suffer though this and read it, I really need the help. Thanks in advance.
Last year I was working at Hobby Lobby. Well while on the job I hurt my back. I kept telling the boss and the assistant manager that my back hurt and I needed to go home. They kept telling me that I would be ok and that I needed to stay until closing time. Well I somehow made it through the day. Well that night I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t stand and I couldn’t set for more than a minute or two at a time. It was horrible. Well come morning I call the manager and told him that my back hurt and I wouldn’t be able to come to work. He told me that if my back hurt that I would have to go to the Chiropractor and get a work release before I could even come back to work. I however was tight on funds, so my mom’s best friend (also co-manager of Hobby Lobby) told me that she would pay for my first visit. I thought that was so nice of her and then made an appointment with her chiropractor.
Well I went in to see him; the car ride there was HORRIBLE… They gave me a form to fill out and since I have never done anything like that before, and having no idea what to write and not wanting to get Hobby Lobby in trouble I say that I hurt my back else where, other than work- stupid mistake, I know. Well he x-rayed me (didn’t expect that, never had been before) and then he told me I had a pinched nerve in my lower back –well duh! He then laid me on that weird table and put his hands on my lower back and popped it, he did that three times and told me to come back the next day. So then my friend, my mom’s friends (same friend as before) daughter had taken me so she said she would pay if I wanted to go out to the car. So I did, I had already made an appointment for the next day and got a note saying I couldn’t work yet. Well this went on for two weeks, 6 chiropractor visits at $40 a pop that got pricy. At this point, my back hurts extremely bad, but good thing I can actually set or stand for a little while longer, if I do it just right, and I have this huge bruise from my mid back down to my butt and it hurts to even look at it. I had another visit with the Dr. the next day so I called into my boss and told him about it. That very same night my mom got a phone call from her friend telling her that if I didn’t come back to work the next day I would be fired.
So the next day I tell the Dr, I need a release form so that I can go back to work. He doesn’t say no, but he said that I shouldn’t be going back because I still hurt. I was glad to be gone of him though, he had hurt my back so bad, he was and is a QUACK. Well I go back to work. A week passed and that’s when I was moving an hour away to live with my then Fiancé. I still wanted to keep my job, so I was going to make the hour drive to and then back every day I worked.
Well the day that we move I bust my radiator. And besides my Fiancés car, which he needed for work. I had no means to get to work. But the car was going to the shop the next day and would be back in 3 days at the most. So I call my boss up and tell him about the problem and that I would call him in the morning if I needed that day off too. Later that night I gets a call from my mom saying that the co-manager, her friend, called and said that if I called into work the next day and said I couldn’t make it, I was going to be fired on the spot, since I had been missing so many days.
The next morning I found out the car was still ‘sick’ so I had no choice but to quit or I was going to get fired. And I don’t understand this. How could I be fired for missing so many days when the only days I had missed were ones that were cause by Hobby Lobby themselves and ones I wasn’t allowed to work because I didn’t have a release form. This happened a year ago. Then about 2 month ago I get a thing in the mail from a Debt collection agency saying that the Chiropractor wants his $170 for the X-rays. Which I though my moms friend was paying for, but that’s not the issue here. The issue is Hobby lobby ****** me over. I was never told I could go home, I was never asked to fill out forms, which I found out about when I called my moms friend about the x-rays, for work-mans comp and so on. I was never told about these and then I had to rush to get back to work or I would lose my job. Which by the way wasn’t worth it, I still have horrible pack pains and loss of sensation in my left leg. It will get horrible pains in it, where I swear someone is taking the mussel and ripping it off. So I have to get out of bed or up out of a chair and walk around for awhile. This however is better than how it was, there was a time that after I laid down or set down for anything over 5 minutes that when I got back up I had to limp around for a good half hour, because my leg hurt to bad to put any pressure on it. Which SUCKS.. And then after all that, to have a real accident with the car and then have my job threaded again, so much as to having to quit. Which wasn’t right since I would come in on my days off to help and I would stay over and to extra stuff all of the time, just to make them happy.
Then here a month ago the manager got pulled out of the store because he was caught stealing money and merchandise. That he was fixing the books and stealing great deals of money from them and was an all around bad guy.
So here in lies my question… Is there anything that I can do about this? I mean with the company, since I was treated horribly by this man who later turns out to be a thief? Do you have any comments on this?
Again I’m sorry this is so long and I know I shouldn’t have use word, but I didn’t want to have to keep going back to add details. SORRY!
Thanks to those of you who read it.
Sorry if this is in the wrong section.
2006-11-19
04:27:18
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Brenda C
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