genetic:

The thing at work is that once 'someone' decided that I wasn't wanted anymore, there appeared to be an orchestrated campaign to get rid of me. My supervisor, leading the charge, was one of a few people that knew that I required a week long inpatient on a psych unit followed up an intensive outpatient treatment in June, 2011. I returned to work around the first week in July, 2011. I was prescribed Lexapro at this time.

It took me about 2 months to re-acclimate to a work place environment. I didn't know what people were thinking about why I was out or what was being said so I did my best not to get paranoid about it.

During this time, I found myself becoming more assertive, more comfortable in social settings and a little more outspoken. Most people welcomed me back and some commented that I was much more upbeat and liked it. A very small minority didn't, including my supervisor and her supervisor which was the department head.

For five and a half years not one complaint. My supervisor then started confronting me with 2 or 3 complaints a week, very trivial stuff (I was reported for answering my cel phone in the bathroom), some outright lies and somethings very subjective. I refuted all that was being alleged and I thought all of this was going away. When it wasn't going away, because the complaints were becoming more ludicrous AND from the same people, who I was trying to avoid contact with, I tried to schedule a meeting with all concerned including the supervisors. This meeting was initially set up and a day later was canceled. I was then informed that another meeting with the departments HR rep was set up.

None of the people that were making the allegations, except for my immediate supervisor, were in this meeting. When we were all in the room together the first thing out of the HR reps mouth was 'anyone else would be fired for all of this'. I could tell that this was going to be adversarial and it was. My comment to the HR rep was 'it's quite apparent that you are not objective' and asked her to recuse herself and that I wanted to discuss all of this with the VP of HR.

After addressing the individual complaints and stating why they were so implausible, I thought all of this was going away.

One month later, my supervisor brought me in and gave me a 60 day probation period. I was to be monitored for 'inappropriate behavior'. I realized then that this was the first nail in the coffin. The inappropriate behavior thing is very subjective and opened things wide open for anyone who didn't like me or wanted me out of there to claim anything.

That's exactly what happened. 65 days later I was issued a 3 day off period without pay and when I returned from that, I was 'fired'. This was the day after Easter, 2012.

Sorry for being long winded, but Psych Central will not be my only audience for this. I've got two attorneys willing to represent me in a wrongful termination lawsuit.

Now here is where the psych thing comes in. When my supervisor first confronted me with these issues, she was alleging that I was argumentative and aggressive bordering on hostility and that perhaps my 'medications were not adequately adjusted'. It was only her and up to 6 other people who were alleging this, most of the department's leadership. I checked around with at least 50 other people, which included professionals like physicians and surgeons who I worked closely with, who said that I was anything but aggressive. If a surgeon thought like what was being alleged, I doubt they would let me in on their cases. So, this was political in my opinion. The department's leadership all had one thing in common - they were OR nurses.

I'm debating about the legal issue but I have an appointment with a new counselor in October to go over these issues.

Thanks for listening...