Charter Communications Un Healthy Unsafe Work Environment/Customer Abuse Fond Du Lac Wisconsin

I was employed by Charter Communications in Greensburg, Pennsylvania from November 1999 until October 2001. I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in August of 2000. I made the mistake of telling the Office Manager about the diagnosis. When I started one therapy for MS, I developed the flu-like symptoms (mine lasted 6 days, and the 7th day was the next injection, to start the flu all over again). Each time I asked to invoke the Family Medical Leave Act, she suggested I rethink the situation, as I might "need" it more later. Being newly diagnosed, and only knowing what might could happen in this disease, I kept chugging away, until I finally couldn't keep coming to work as sick as I was. I took the leaved starting at the end of November. (I didn't get my short term disability check until I was back to work 3 months later, and then only got paid for 1 month of the time I was off.)

I was written up FIVE times in one day, some of which were not even in my job description. I wrote up the reports for the acting supervisor, and forgot to put them on the table to be found in the morning. I was written up for leaving them on my cubicle top. They were going to terminate me the day I called off 10 minutes before start time. I was crossing the bridge into town when I received a cell phone call telling me that my house was on fire! I had to PROVE that it was my house that was on the front page of the newspaper.

It took them from February of 2001 to October 21, 2001 to devise a plan to successfully terminate me. For "Willful Misconduct"... because I called the head honcho supervisor a slime ball for hitting on a technician when he had a wife at home who was also sick. Of course all the people involved either were promoted into higher positions for their complicity in the situation, or terminated before me to prevent me from being able to prove their conspiracy. In a supervisor's meeting they were told to find a good reason to terminate me. When one of the supervisor's asked why this guy wanted to terminate one of the best technicians they had in the department. The guy told him that if I didn't have MS they wouldn't have a problem with me. Thus he became history at Charter Communications before me.

More than a few of the people who worked with me, have credit report problems, that should just about now be resolving themselves because of the Statute of Limitations placed on bad debt. These people had very high credit ratings until they became Charter Communications Employees and opted for the medical coverage. Their bills didn't get paid.

Today we get notification that the significant other's paychecks are to be garnished for outstanding past due Employment Income Taxes on a local level. Something that amounted to a little over $400.00 in 2000, 2001 & 2002 have with penalties & interest exceeded the 1K mark. Thing is.. those taxes were deducted from the paychecks on a bi-weekly basis for those years... Where did Charter send them? Or did they send them?

Now the problem is, trying to find someone somewhere within the Corporation who has anything or knows something about the payroll that was produced in those years. I've moved since being employed by Charter and didn't think it necessary to bring a whole lot of miscellaneous garbage papers with me in the move. I should have known that if they were willing to screw one person over, screwing over hundreds of former employees wouldn't be any skin off their noses.

Thanks for listening.
ToFast4U

Former Employee, Charter Communications, Greensburg, Pennsylvania

Oh.. and those accomplices who assisted in my termination... well... seems they've had to look elsewhere for income as well, being as Charter pulled out of Southwestern Pennsylvania completely...