I have been employed as an EMT for a hospital-based transport service for the last five years. I have a strong connection with my peers and I was happily employed, loving the job I do.

Our management has been somewhat turbulent the past 2 years as our old Manager was fired (for what seems to be related to our assistant managers wrong doing), however, my point is this..

Over the past 18 months, my supervisor has been increasingly difficult to work with. This is a systemic issue the whole department has felt. Most colleagues feel the same way and fear retaliation, and reprisal from our current management team.

This has been brought up in the last two yearly surveys - with nothing done from corporate.

Numerous other issues have been brought up to HR and our internal “alert line,” however, yet again, nothing to date has been done.

My department manager and I had a disagreement just about a year ago. This manager was sending staff home while calls were pending and backing up. The conversation with my manager was maybe a few minutes, related to sending teams home, and a regular back-and-forth discussion. The conversation took place in front of two other witnesses.

The following day, I am called into the office to meet with my supervisor. The supervisor has a set agenda and wants to talk about select things - many that I have no knowledge of.

He asks me questions about what was said, and I simply don’t have answers as most of the allegations were unfounded and simply not true. His increasing frustration eventually leads me to me retreat from his office and attempt to get one of the witnesses from the prior day who is located in an adjacent room.

As I attempted to l walk out of his office, he stood up quickly and raced around me to block the hallway with this arm and kept telling me “no no no” as I attempted to leave.

Luckily for me, the operations manager’s office was directly beside his (with office door open) so instead of going to the right, I simply turn to the left and was able to seek assistance from this manager.

This manager was a great witness. He explained that he did not hear any yelling, did not see me acting unprofessional, and could verify that our supervisor was clearly distressed and borderline acting unprofessional.

This entire event was brought to HR in both writing, and a conference call. Nothing happened. It wasn’t even acknowledged in any form.

Fast forward to a few days ago. A fellow employee asked why I did not like our supervisor. I told him he would need to formulate his own opinion, however, in my experience this supervisor is not trustworthy and has a checkered past. I explained to him how the manager try to stop me from leaving his office and how I feel unsafe around him.

Exactly 1 week later I was terminated.

Allegedly for not complying with the company service standards and culture of safety policies. If you read either of these policies this pretext is completely untrue and false.

As a matter of fact, the hypocrisy is staggering as the supervisor has been recorded bullying me and several others by saying things that are offensive and untrue (verifiably untrue).

Do I have a case for anything?

The facts are this:

• a documentation trail exists;

• witness statements available;

• supporting documentation is available,

• character witness statements ready,

• several audio recordings / screenshots of the managers bullying available,

• prior employee brought legal action against the same supervisor and nothing has changed,

• the termination letter and copies of company policies are saved;

• widespread manager intimidation towards my teammates have half a dozen colleagues wishing to be deposed as they are just as tired of the toxic environment

What can I do?

How should I even formulate a response to appeal my termination?