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SO - please let me give you the bones of this so you understand my question.
My husband works for a manufacturing company in FL, which is owned by a larger one that is based in CA but that is also owned by a conglomerate group.
My husband is a well educated black, has a degree in Tool & Dye Manufacturing, Business Ethics and Management with a specialty in cross team working for manufacturing environments.
He knows just about every floor position so that he can fill in when someone is out, he also trains all new hires brought in. He knows the company product line and prices better than some of the sales people and has often worked with the engineers to craft special parts orders for clients. And these are multi million dollar life science parts they work on, not just bits and pieces.
My husband has been with the company since 2005, he has gotten degrees and certifications to improve his ability to be a better part of the company. His local General Manager would meet with him, say they could talk about moving him up off the production floor. There have been many promises of meetings about promotions, about raises about lateral position changes even yet everything has been superficial at best. The GM would stirring him along for months via email chains about when they could meet or canceling meetings.
Four years ago the GM raised him and another brand new employee to over see the units on the floor - this meant my husband was running his units ( 4 in total with 3 to 5 employees in each unit) while also training the new guy - we will call him H - on how to oversee his units as he had no expierence. At the time it was also announced any openings within the company would be posted or otherwise announced so that those in house would have a chance to apply.
A year and half later H was promoted above him - the position was never announced or displayed where he would be notified about it. It happened again a few months later with another co-worker - we will call him Z - who he thought was a friend being promoted even higher then that to the position where essentially all employees now reported to him if they worked production.
Once again no announcement the position was available awhere he knew, beyond the announcement of the coworker getting it during the morning meeting.
This past June Z received another promotion to Production and Manufacturing Manager. The problem in this is he has no managerial experience, he doesn't know all of the product lines or how to ensemble a projected forecast for product movement. He is another fellow my husband trained from the ground up to be apart of this company, who is now relying on my husband to do his job for him without my husband getting the pay for the work while my husband has to do his own job.
When things are brought up to the GM about this my husband is told how "he has a goal to move him in to another position in xxx department". Once again though the string of canceled meetings begin whenever my Husband tries to talk about the situation.
My husband is almost a keystone to this location - he has a key to open, is there every mornin at 5 am to open the building for others. He gets the day started for them and asigns the task. He works from untill 3:30pm (often later). Z who is his "manager" doesn't show up till 8 am.
One day when my husband chose to work through his afternoon breaks to ensure product got out to a customer - and avoided having to work saturday morning - Z told him "thats the guy we need more of." Needless to say my husbands jaw was on the floor as the morning time he works from 5 am untill 9:30 before he gets a 15 min break as all of the breaks are scheduled for the entire building to include sales and support - who also don't show up untill 8.
He feels he is at a absolute impasse and from the promotions he keep seeing happening for guys he trains who have maybe 4 years with the company and just a GED going over him. Its shaping heavily that this is a race favoring issue as my husband is black despite all his effort to bend to every request of the GM to succeed.
The stress of this has caused him to develop depression and he seems to be bringing his frustration of this situation home. Its beginning to effect his health in other ways - he was never one to get sick and now he gets smacked by any cold within a 20 foot radious (and covid has made it a nightmare for me).
This location everyone on the production floor for the most part is mix hertiage. Not all but most - Latino, black, or some other. My husband is considered only a "unit supervisor". Everyone above him, everyone in sales and what little other departments they maintain are white.
He has no HR on site to even go to for filing a formal complaint as back in 2008 or 2009 they felt the position wasn't needed there anymore. Any HR needs are to be emailed to the parent company in CA.
This is a heavy headache for us because we don't even know where to start to try problem solving as all attempts with the GM are things to placate him so he won't leave and are concerned any grevience filed with HR will result in nothing or him being fired as FL is a right to work state.
He is trying to work on leaving, considering getting his MBA even - but finding a job for him for some reason has been another issue of stress. Despite all his expierence and skills.
We don't know where to start to even how to move forward - do we even have a legal leg to stand on to get things resolved?
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