University Of Missouri ripoff, abusive behaviour, fraudulent billings, Columbia Missouri

I had a very unfavorable experience as a staff member in the Office of Technology and Special Projects at the University of Missouri. I felt that the work conditions were utterly ridiculous, and absolutely infuriating! Rather than being treated as a valuable employee and a team-member, I felt babysitted Instruction was not offered but used with words of manipulation, like "disapproval will cost your your job," even when I wasn't offered initial instruction on how to do a task. I felt set-up for failure by being delegated with projects for which my employers were aware I had no experience, and patronized when I asked questions for help in order to complete the tasks. Overall, I accepted the job under the pretense that I was going to be acting as a office staff memeber carrying out secretarial duties and possibly constructing a business web page and creating and implementing a new database system, tasks for which I am qualified. I later learned; however, that the job had a history of high employee turnovers. I can speculate that it's partially to do with the harassment from one woman, Margie Floyd, in the office whose feeble put-downs, insults and belittling comments were flicked away like an annoying fly. She even hid a coffee mug and spread a rumor that I had stolen it. It was one afternoon as I was returning from lunch that I caught another employee, a personal friend of Ms. Floyd, rummaging through my personal things. The final straw ocurred after another lunch period in which I returned to find my computer disc completely erased. Of course, I was shocked! I wasn't sure which one had committed this act; however, I was ultimately fingered as the aggitator amoung the employees and dismissed from my duties. I was completely surprised and very angry. I considered filing a complaint with Human Resources but then decided I would use litigation.