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It’s time to get out of there and get some payback.
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Write down everything that just happened. Every word. Every touch. Tone of voice. Yours and his. All of it. Include the date, time, room, and your positions there. Then, write down how it all made you feel. Make several copies and save them all.
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Call friends and family and tell them what happened. Get some comfort and ask them to support you through what’s to come. Even the best outcomes will not be pleasantly gotten.
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Call a lawyer, ask them about your rights, tell them what happened, and ask them to take your case on contingency or direct you to pro bono services for the indigent.
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Report the case to the police and every applicable labor regulator in writing. Call them to tell them that you reported the case and confirm their receipt.
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If the law allows, wear a wire. Turn it on before you come to work, and turn it off after you leave. Save multiple copies of the recordings. Otherwise, repeat steps 1-4 for every incident.
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When you’re ready, gather any witnesses you can, ask them to repeat steps 1-5, and bring the case. If Vlad has any brains, then he will not fire you until the case settles or closes. It will only increase his liability.
Regardless, start looking for other work immediately. Take it as soon as you do and move if you must. Do not even appear to grudgingly accept his advances unless he threatens to fire you. He might get ‘fed up’ and fire you for not instantly being permanently and totally subservient, but on the other hand, he might not. The longer he keeps abusing you, the longer your record of contemporaneous notes, not to mention period to accumulate witnesses, becomes.
If he does fire you, then record that too, in excruciating detail and immediately sue him. If you have a case, then go to trial. If you don’t, then threaten to anyway and demand a settlement through the attorney that you should doubtless hire. Do not communicate with him directly.
Also do not think that any non-disclosure agreement you may or may not sign as a condition of a settlement or may or may not have signed as a condition of employment applies to discussions with the authorities: you can and should always tell them everything.
And while mandatory blinding arbitration is both mandatory and binding, it does not prohibit you from telling the company’s highest-level top human resources and legal staff that one of the first acts of their freshly-hired chief executive was to conduct an unscheduled, unsupervised, undisclosed site visit to retaliate against and indeed further harass a female employee who had rejected his unwanted and inappropriate advances when he was a customer. In those words. “I can explain!” will not impress the board of directors, and a photo or video of him leaving after several return visits will basically doom him.
Throughout all this, lean on your friends and family. They may surprise you with their willingness to help you both personally, directly, and financially. Whether helping you to reach and enjoy victory or avoid or endure defeat, they will make this process much better.
: Works "I need some catching up to do."
: "Hello Karma~ How was your break?"
