Friends in the Wrong Places

After I was forced to sign a write -up I knew was false, I started to think about something my supervisor told me.

She said she had passed along all of my complaints, about the recruiter, the retaliation, the targeting to the Director of Human Resources.

But then stated, "She won't do anything about it."

Then came the part that explained everything: She and the recruiter are friends.

That was the moment it all clicked.

Nothing was going to happen to the person hurting me, because the person who should've held her accountable was protecting her instead.

And the write-up? It wasn't even based on real student concerns.

It was based on two complaints the recruiter had to coerce out of students, and I know that because my supervisor told me. The complaints were supposedly because I let them out of class a few minutes early. Never mind that they arrived early nearly every day that week. Never mind that it didn't interfere with DOH-required hours. Never mind that no student would've filed a complaint over something that trivial, unless someone pressured them into it.

These complaints were created for one purpose:

To justify retaliation.

And the people in charge let it happen.

I wasn't just being monitored. I wasn't just being written up.

I was being set up, protected complaints weaponized against me, while the people I reported were shielded by friendship and silence.

And I see it now, clearly.

-- K