One lovely day while at work minding my own business I was summed into DJ’s office and told to bring my Company Issues Phone (COU). At first I thought he was going to say that I need to give back the phone in order to hand it over to someone else due to our phone rotation amongst the reps. When I saw him ask M&M to join us I had a bad feeling. DJ proceeded to tell me that I am being suspended from work.
With shock and amazement, I ask why? He tells me do to the magnitude of this accusation that has been placed upon me he cannot say. M&M confirms that statement and tells me that I will be contacted at a later day upon a pending investigation. At this time I feel as if I am being set up for something big! They started this off with a shroud of secrecy like a Roswell cover-up LOL!
I am now serving my suspension without knowing why a week goes buy and I hear nothing form DJ or M&M. The first thought that goes through my mind is this all could be a freemason plot to keep me from snooping around their websites. Or it’s an initiation into the brotherhood. I went along with the suspension thinking it wasn’t serious. When I see that no one has contacted me from the brotherhood I started to think this suspension was something else.
I sat and pondered the situation what could it be that would bring fourth a suspension with such secrecy? The only thing that came to mind is the inventory and the missing items during shipping. At this time I am thinking I really don’t believe the company would think I stole from them. I’ve worked for them for four years and never once been tempted to do so.
But then I remembered the inventory coordinator and inventory specialist have been e-mailing me back and fourth asking me probing questions about missing items and forwarding them to M&M and DJ. I responded to all honestly and with facts to back my story up. Our inventories counts have been upside down do to the negligence of certain sales reps in the store. I reported them all and DJ looked at me as if I was the one who made these mistakes. He expressed his disapproval many times towards the inventory counts to a point where it seemed like he was trying to set me up for the fall in order to save himself. Now I have been betrayed many times by white men but a Black man this was my first.
Since I was not allowed anywhere near the store and told not to contact anyone from the store I really started to get suspicious. If it is not the Freemasons it must be the inventory. That is the only battle I have been in the past few months with the company. I then started to think the reason they took my phone was because was to look up my messages and contact to see if I have a person whom I contact in order to steal. Mind you due to recent Break-ins in other stores except for the one I work in the company has been on high alert.
My mind is going a mile a minute thinking of all possible scenarios like they must have been tracking all possible aspects of the robberies and see that my store has not been hit but items are missing from the inventory. In their minds this makes me look like suspect number one in a string of robberies. I truly believe they have been monitoring me closely due to probing questions asked by the inventory coordinator she also copied them to DJ and M&M.
At this point I am tired of speculating so I call the company’s union representative and told him my story. He springs onto action immediately and get’s me a meeting with M&M. The Meeting is set and I am prepared to defend myself to the very last breathe. I was prepared on all fronts to prove my innocence I had e-mail and printed out receipts to prove ever transaction possible.

Greetings and Salutations to all who are reading this Blog, I would like to take this time out to thank you and show my appreciation for honoring me with your interest in my somewhat entertaining life.

In this blog I am about to take you on a little journey of recent events I have been through in my four year AT&T Career and the end of it all. Or is it? This will be a tale of Sex, lies, and Corporate America I was once told “there is no better place to begin then the beginning”. So without further a due here we go, Once upon a time in a land called corporate America there exists a business called AT&T moblity. Wait a minute you guys didn’t really think I was going to start off like that did you? LOL!

My story begins in mid June 2007 working for At&t mobility at a store that I felt very comfortable working for. In the interests of fairness to people’s privacy I will be using acronyms, initials, and nicknames. With that said, the first characters I will be talking about will be DJ the overseer of the store, Mr. T the enforcer of the store, and M&M the head man in charge of all store in the area they All played an intricate part in my era with the company.

DJ is an overall good guy he listens and at time helps you out if it benefits him.
When I look at DJ I see a man who wants a better life and will do what it takes to get it.
He is a hard worker and very diligent in all aspects of the business. I dubbed him the At&t work horse, due to certain day in the store where Mr. T and M&M would be together in the break room eating hot wings while DJ would be on the sales floor helping customers.

Mr. T is a “kool guy” he knows when to joke and laugh with you and when to “lay the hammer down”. He is very affectionate he tends to put his are around the ladies a lot and “schmooze” with them on a daily basis. Mr. T and M&M are good friends from what I have been told and seeing their interaction in the past year. That would explain why DJ would not get included in the hot wings lunch in the backroom.

M&M this guy is a big picture man very smart, cunning, and can and will deceive you and make you buy into what he’s saying. I think he is at the right position in the company and I admire the “game of Chess” he plays with people’s lives. He is very good at it and he s perfecting his skills at this very moment. I do thank him because he helped my out when I need assistance. He is kind but a shroud businessman.

And then there’s me the rubber band man I'm in trouble man always in trouble man. I work the inventory room and other clerical task that the heads of the store don’t want to do. My position has been called the “inventory Bitch, do boy, gofer, and bottom of the barrel” needless to say my position in the store was not as important as a sales rep.

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12/21/2012 looms.
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I inform the public of pending doom but they don't care.
Is Ignorance bliss?
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I recently gave the EEO rep enough evidence to clear my name and I have not heard form anyone. I checked AT&t.com/careers and see that there is an opening for my position. Now I can assume that their really is no investigation going on and the ease I was suspended without notice of the accusation and why I was being suspended is because the company had other reasons they wanted to get rid of me. I am still investigating why federal taxes weren’t withheld from my paycheck all year. I clearly remember writing down that I wanted my taxes withheld from my paychecks.

I am very disappointed to see that this is how I am being treated by a company I gave 100% to. In my opinion I feel as if this is happening because I was getting to close to moving up with the company. I had a one on one SSR training session with Terri Pendergrass that she schedules me to "RSVP" a while back. I attuned on my day off the store manger did not acknowledge the e-mail. At this point I don't know. I have been the "do boy" for my mangers ever since I have been working at Cypress. I had a sinus infection do to the dust I inhaled working in the backroom of that store during construction. Just to make sure inventory is their and safe for them.

All this accrued because of a discount report which I was told by another visiting manager that I was not suppose to be doing due to conflict of interest. I found out my accuser was mad because her name appeared too much on the report. She thought I was picking on her so she set me up with her harassment accusation. I had previous talks with my accuser before the accusation and she warned me not to put her name on the report. At first I shrugged it off because I thought I was doing my job and the management team would explain that to her. I was wrong.

It amazes me how fast the company came to her aide. I truly believe it is because she is a sales rep and I am an SSR. It is no secret how bias the company is to certain positions in the store. “Protect the sales reps and sacrifice the SSR" is the saying. For days now I was in complete shock that I am being accused of something this serious. I wish the cameras at that store would record sound along with video in order for me to further prove my innocence.
I really believe it is because I walked in on an inner office exchange between my accuser and another rep in the store. I told my assistant manager about it and somehow it got back to the rep and a few days later I get suspended.

Although right now if you try to get answers from anyone they will deny all that I say because of how I was suspended. It looks like I was deemed guilty and now I have to prove I am innocent. I use to hold my head up high and say I am an AT&T inventory ssr. Now I feel as if the company is out to save face and replace. There are many things I can use in my defense. For example gift exchanges, money asked by the ladies from the men in the store, there is one rep that brings food and gifts to another stores, verbal abuse and inappropriate touching. But I will keep those secrets. Because I will never forget the time when I needed help in order to take care of my grandmother during her illness and Maureen Freeman and Mike Moore helped me out with a transfer to another store.

The fact that their is so much secrecy and the interference between the store manager turning reps against me as if I was the one who betrayed them. It pains me to see how fake the management team is. If they only knew how many times I stopped reps from revaluating against the company and quitting because of tough times and lack of respect giving to them by management I am very disappointed because in the back of my mind I truly wonder why I am being treated this way. I know for a fact that in my four years with this company Two Sales reps in this company have been accused of sexual harassment and the process was totally different. They did not get suspended first and then an investigation happened. One of those reps became an Assistant manager and the other is still with the company thriving.

At first I thought it was because both gentlemen are white! But then I looked back and one of those reps have a friend in a very high position But then I looked at my situation the fact that they are both Sales reps and I am an SSR means I am not worth a dime. I have been called “the inventory bitch many of times by all in the store. No one respected what I did sales reps hated me for being in the back and management never defended me when it benefited them. In conclusion I would like to say Thank you for this life experience. I will not quit my job for I am innocent. I am very disappointed in the lack of investigation going on.