The Plauge has lifted!

Giggle...

Well today was an absolute hoot!

I got to go around distributing flyers for the Relay for Life Bratwurst benefit lunch.

:D

You should have seen the way people looked at me. Too funny. All is well, several people signed up, and everyone seems to feel at ease to talk and joke with me again. Geeze.

The gal who cause all the rucuous at our plant two weeks ago had come up and appologized to me week before last.

"I just wanted a better working environment.", she told me after asking me not to hold hard feelings against her, that she didn't mean for it to turn out that way, and was crying to our plant manager about it the Monday morning following the whole ordeal... I, of course, told her it all worked out okay, I was fine, and that a better working environment wasn't too much to ask.

(I know better than to do anything that would be reguarded as mis-treatment, or retaliation toward her, so I play the game of 'nicey nice' and she is rendered helpless...)

What else I know...she didn't use the chain of command, but immediately hotlined.

HR didn't use a warning or coaching process. They just did interviews and then suspensions and a termination.

After that there were phone calls by the distraught employees from the plant about the termination to the hotline. Followed by more interviews, a ban on bandana sales for Relay for Life, a question about what was talked about by workers outside of work (against NLRA...) an imprisionment of 3 people for 3 hours because they had purchased bandanas (one of them 7 months pregnate), and a Spanish Inquisition of me and others as to why we were selling bandanas.

In the end, the corporate lawyers were flown in, the terminated employee re-instated, quickly I might add, and the other employees involved re-enstated and quietly transferred to other departments.

Sure has been nice to be back to normal and everything peaceful again.

I am waiting for HR to realize just one more thing--just how nuts the girl is who started it all...She will eventually snap with everyone treating her so well, and not doing anything she can report. Perhaps she will start making things up. That would be fun, wouldn't it? Heh, give those kinds of people an inch, where they think they have sooooo much power, they will try to take a mile and run out of road at the end of a cliff.

So, I bide my time till I get to LMAO...