I was fired on 06/25/2008 for not giving my manager the phone number of a former co-worker who bounced a check

Question

was I wrongully terminated, and should I file a complaint with the EEOC, or was my manager right to fire me, even though the check was paid in full two days after I was let go. Why should I be held responsible for someone else's actions, I didn't know the check was going to bounce and neither did she, she was fired 1 week before I was fired for the rubber check and informed them that she would pay them when she got paid, why was i even brought into the equation? What should I do?

Answer 1

If you live in California or Arizona, your employer has all the power, they need not give you reason for termination and can change that reason at any time for unemployment arbitration. Sounds like your manager sucks anyhow.

Answer 2

I think you were wrongfully terminated.  To me, it seems that you had nothing to do with the other girl and a bounced check (unless the check was to you).  The manager should of had the phone number in past records unless it was changed.  If it was, it's not his right to know it.  The banks and the police can handle such cases as bounced checks.  As far as you and your job, I would go to the state, maybe board of labor.  Go to someone.  You should get your job back, but would you want to knowing that the manager will most likely be looking at you negatively?  If anything, you could at least get some money back with a civil court case.

Answer 3

Even if your name was on her account, you should not have been fired!!  She signed the check so it was her business and not yours.  I am not sure if you're providing all the details either because really, it doesn't make any sense.  Why would someone get fired for writing a bad check and after the fact that she informed them she would pay it?  And....why would the manager need the phone number from you?  Wouldn't he already have all that info on file?  Something just doesn't sound right.