Does CERBERUS Know??

just-a-patsy submitted 110 days ago

ON MARCH 13 2008 I WAS INDEFINITELY SUSPENDED (TERMINATED) FROM CHRYSLER CANADA IN WINDSOR, ONTARIO AT THE MINIVAN PLANT FOR LAUGHING AT A COMMENT I OVER HEARD, EVERYONE SHOULD TAKE THIS TO HEART BECAUSE COMPANIES NOWADAYS HAVE NO REGARD FOR YOU OR YOUR FAMILY.
ALSO KEEP IN MIND THIS IS A FACTORY AND SHOP TALK IS THE NORM AND CAN BE CRUDE AND RUDE AT TIMES...I'M SURE EVERYONE WILL AGREE THAT WHAT I AM ABOUT TO TELL YOU IS NO GROUNDS FOR TERMINATION, IF YOU EVER WORKED IN A FACTORY YOU WILL UNDERSTAND.

HERE IS MY STORY.

THURSDAY NIGHT (MAR 13) AN INCIDENT AROSE WHERE MATT AND MARK (NOT THERE REAL NAMES) WHERE DISCUSSING JELLY BEANS THAT MATT HAD LEFT ON THE TABLE A WEEK OR 2 EARLIER. I OVERHEARD THIS CONVERSATION, MATT HAD MENTIONED “DID YOU EAT THOSE JELLYBEANS” I LAUGHED BECAUSE I KNEW WHAT IT WAS LEADING UP TO BECAUSE MATT IS ALWAYS JOKING LIKE THAT, SAYING THINGS LIKE “IS THAT YOU’RE POP?”
WE JUST SAY YES AND CONTINUE DRINKING IT KNOWING FULL WELL THE TYPE OF PERSON MATT IS THAT HE WOULD NEVER TAMPER WITH ANYONES FOOD INCLUDING HIS OWN.WELL MATT JOKINGLY SAID THAT HE HAD RUBBED THOSE JELLYBEANS ON A TOILET SEAT, (OF WHICH HE DID NOT TAMPER WITH AS DID ANYONE ELSE), I ATE HALF THE PACKAGE MYSELF AND I DID SEE MATT OPEN PACKAGE AT START OF SHIFT.

MARK TOOK IT THE WRONG WAY AND BEGAN TO CONFRONT US ABOUT IT, WHILE I WAS ON LEFT SIDE OF SLIDING DOOR AND HE WAS ON RIGHT SIDE.
AT THIS TIME MARK ASKED ME FROM ACROSS VAN “I HOPE HE'S NOT SERIOUS AND I TOLD HIM “WHAT ARE YOU DOING EATING OTHERS PEOPLES FOOD ANYWAY” HE THEN SAID “I'M SERIOUS, TOM” (NOT MY REAL NAME) I THEN RESPONDED TO MARK “WE/HE WAS JUST TEASING YOU, MARK”.
SHORTLY AFTER I NOTICED HE SEEMED QUIET AND UPSET AND ASKED ME AGAIN, AND AGAIN I SAID “WE WERE JUST TEASING YOU”
THINKING THIS WAS THE END OF IT AND NOTHING WAS DONE OTHER THEN A VERBAL JOKE THAT I GOT CAUGHT UP INTO.

SO AS AFTERNOON SHIFT ENDED AT 11:06 PM I WALKED BY MARK TO SAY “HAVE A GOOD NIGHT “TO ONCE AGAIN BE CONFRONTED BY COMING UP TO ME AND GRABBING MY ARM ME FROM BEHIND AND HIM SAYING “TOM CHOOSE YOUR WORDS WISELY !, DID ANYONE SCREW AROUND WITH THEM JELLYBEANS? BECAUSE YOUR NAME IS GOING IN THIS REPORT ALSO…I THEN TOLD MARK “WE WERE JUST TEASING YOU” AND I LEFT TO CATCH MY COMMUTER VAN.

THE ONLY THING DIFFERENT FROM MY REPORT ABOVE AND REPORT THAT MARK TURNED INTO COMPANY WAS THAT MARK SAID HE DID NOT HEAR ME SAY “HE/WE WERE JUST TEASING YOU” AND ALSO AT END OF NIGHT HE SAID HE ASKED ME AGAIN AND MY RESPONSE TO HIM WAS “SOMETHING SARCASTIC AND THAT I COULD NOT GET OUT OF THERE QUICK ENOUGH”.(WELL I DO HAVE TO CATCH A COMMUTER VAN)

THE NEXT DAY (MARCH 14) I WENT TO WORK TO FIND MANAGEMENT, SECURITY AND UNION PERSONAL AT OUR LUNCH TABLE…THINKING NOTHING I WENT TO MY LOCKER TO FIND IT EMPTY, SECURITY HAD CUT LOCK OFF AND REMOVED ALL CONTENTS FROM MINE AND MATT’S LOCKERS, I WAS THEN TOLD THAT MATT AND I HAD A MEETING WITH LABOR RELATIONS…THIS IS WHERE WE WERE INTERROGATED AND TOLD WE WERE INDEFINITELY SUSPENDED FOR REASONS BELOW.

NOW WITH ALL THAT SAID BELOW ARE THE REASONS I WAS TERMINATED FROM TERMINATION LETTER I RECEIVED FROM CHRYSLER CANADA ON
APRIL 11 2008

REASONS I WAS TERMINATED

FROM THE EMPLOYEE GUIDE UNDER STANDARDS OF CONDUCT.

4. ASSAULTING AND/OR INFLICTING BODILY HARM UPON ANY
EMPLOYEE OR OTHER PERSON.

8. FIGHTING, “HORSEPLAY” OR OTHER DISORDERLY, DISRUPTIVE OR
UNRULY CONDUCT.

17. THREATENING, INTIMIDATING, OR COERCING, EMPLOYEES.

20. CREATING OR CONTRIBUTING TO UNSAFE OR UNSANITARY
CONDITIONS.

28. IMMORAL OR INDECENT CONDUCT.

HOW CAN COMPANY AND/OR UNION JUSTIFY THIS WRONGFUL TERMINATION?
ALSO KEEP IN MIND I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH COMMENT OTHER THEN OVERHEARING IT AND LAUGHING ABOUT WHAT I JUST HEARD, I DID NOT CONFRONT MARK HE CONFRONTED,QUESTIONED AND IN MY OPINION THREATENED AND ASSAULTED ME. AND YET HE HAS REMAINED AT WORK AND NOT LOST A DAYS WORK DUE TO HIS REPORT HE TURNED INTO COMPANY AND THAT HE HAD DECIDED TO INCLUDE MY NAME ALSO IN HIS SO CALLED STATEMENT.

I BELIEVE THE SOMEONE IN MANAGEMENT HAD AN ISSUE WITH MATT, I WAS TOLD THIS BY MATT HIMSELF THAT TWO WEEKS EARLIER THEY ATTEMPTED TO TERMINATE HIM FOR OTHER REASONS, AND THIS SUPERVISOR HAD ISSUES WITH HIM.

SO ONCE THIS SUPERVISOR CAUGHT WIND OF THIS SITUATION INVOLVING MATT HE THREW THE BOOK AT HIM AND I WAS IN THE LINE OF FIRE BECAUSE MY NAME WAS IN THE STATEMENT REPORTED BY MARK SO THE BOOK WAS THROWN AT ME AS WELL.
WHY WAS MARK NOT SUSPENDED OR TERMINATED FOR THREATENING AND ASSAULTING ME?
WHY WAS MARK NOT SUSPENDED OR TERMINATED FOR STEALING MATT'S JELLYBEANS? (IN ALL REALITY IT IS THEFT, AND IF HE WOULD NOT OF TOUCHED THEM NONE OF THIS WOULD OF HAPPENED) BESIDES WHO EATS FOOD WHERE YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM? MATT HAD LEFT OR FORGOT THEM ON THE LUNCH TABLE ON AFTERNOON SHIFT AND MARK WORKS MIDNIGHTS.

CHRYSLER'S IS OWNED BY CERBERUS AND ON THERE WEB PAGE IT STATES IN THERE COMMITMENT THE FOLLOWING…

“We hold ourselves and all of our portfolio companies and management teams to the highest ethical standards and business practices”

NOW CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL BE WHERE ANYTHING “ETHICAL” WAS DONE IN THIS MATTER?

SO HERE I AM BROKEN MENTALLY, EMOTIONALLY AND FINANCIALLY WAITING FOR MY UNION TO GET ME BACK TO WORK WITH FULL REDRESS (RETROACTIVE BACK PAY) THERE ARE 4 STEPS TO GRIEVANCES IN OUR UNION. WE HAVE BEEN AT STEP 3 FOR THE LAST 2 MONTHS AND NEXT STEP IS ARBITRATION.

ON JUNE 18 I RECEIVE A CALL FROM UNION REP STATING THEY HAD ARRANGED AN AGREEMENT WITH COMPANY WHERE WE RETURN TO WORK ON JUNE 23 WITH NO CONDITIONS RECEIVE 2200$ SIGNING BONUS (THAT IS ENTITLED TO US ANYWAY BECAUSE I SHOULD OF NEVER BEEN TERMINATED IN THE FIRST PLACE) AND SHORT WORK WEEK DAYS LOST DUE TO A STRIKE THAT HALTED OUR PRODUCTION (2-3 DAYS PAY IN WHICH I SHOULD BE PAID ANYWAY BECAUSE I WAS WORKING AT THIS TIME.) IN RETURN I MUST DROP GRIEVANCE FOR FULL REDRESS(BACK PAY) AND OTHER RIGHTS AND BENEFITS I HAVE LOST. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE??

AS OF NOW I HAVE HAD NO INCOME FOR 3 MONTHS, EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IS STILL INVESTIGATING CLAIM AND HAS A STOP PAYMENT ON ME AND I STILL MAY BE DENIED IT ALL TOGETHER BECAUSE WHAT I AM TOLD IS COMPANY GAVE EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE THE REASONS THEY TERMINATED ME(SEE ABOVE) BUT DID NOT EXPLAIN THEMSELVES….BECAUSE THEY CAN’T THAT’S WHY.

SO NOW I'M AT POINT WHERE I TAKE THIS OFFER AND LOSE OUT ON APPROX 15,000$ BACK PAY OR TAKE IT TO ARBITRATION WHERE IT MAY TAKE 6-12 MONTHS OR LONGER AND IF I REFUSE THIS OFFER I WILL BE DENIED EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.ON TOP OF LOSING MY TRUCK AND POSSIBLY GETTING EVICTED, AND TO TOP IT OFF, DECLARING BANKRUPTCY.

I WONDER IF CERBERUS REALLY KNOWS WHATS GOING ON AT CHRYSLER CANADA AND HOW THEY ARE DISREGARDING CERBERUS’S COMMITMENT. THIS IS HOW CHRYSLER'S TREATS THERE EMPLOYEES?

I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER CHRYSLER PRODUCT AS LONG AS I LIVE AND HOPE PEOPLE WHO READ THIS DO THE SAME. I HAVE YET TO MAKE A DECISION ON WHAT I AM GOING TO DO.
ANY SUGGESTIONS OR PRAYS WOULD BE UPLIFTING IN THIS MATTER.
I WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED.

THANKS
“FIGHT THE POWER”