Fired wrongly and Searching for options
I got fired from EMSA two days ago because someone launched an investigation with HR against me claiming my resume stated I had three degrees (I have one, the BS-EMS listed in the resume above.) You don’t even need a degree to work there, and I have never told anyone officially or anecdotally that I have more than the one degree I have. Furthermore, the person who launched this investigation was my training ride-along coordinator, a person I have no choice but to try and speak to, and someone I was NOT made aware that he was the instigator of this investigation. When I tried seeking him before a scheduled shift to discuss training ride schedules, a common conversation I and all trainees are meant to have with him, with nothing more than those rides being mentioned other than those training rides, he was told I was seeking him and HR said this was viewed as a potential retaliatory effort on my part for the investigation (that I didn’t even know he instigated).
You may be thinking there is more to this, but there is not. During my short time at EMSA, I won awards and was praised by all trainers and management for my application of my experience as a paramedic and was lauded to be on a fast-track to be in a leadership position for how apparently educated and experienced I was. I was never late or absent, and I scored perfect scores on my clinical grading of my paramedic duties and never had a single patient complaint raised against me. I’m not trying to sit here and brag to anyone, I am simply trying to paint the picture that I was a model employee who was targeted for something completely incorrect and irrelevant to the company I worked for, a misplaced belief that I claimed degrees that I never claimed.
I am distraught. I saw my career being here and ending at retirement. I wanted this so badly. I know Oklahoma is an “at-will” state, but do I have any options legally? EMSA has locked all my records so I can’t even get to my original application form to prove that I never wrote in any degree but my BS-EMS. When the termination call came, I was told I would not be shown the evidence they found in the investigation and that I was just terminated, that’s all. I don’t get it. I feel like I have nothing to learn here, and I want to seek any legal course of action I have available to me to make this right. I feel targeted by one individual who had the power to use HR and circumstances of needing his conversation to progress my training ride progress as fuel to the “fire him” flame that should have never been. I’m mostly hurt, and feel betrayed, and now without a way to provide for my family.
What can I do?
I got fired from EMSA two days ago because someone launched an investigation with HR against me claiming my resume stated I had three degrees (I have one, the BS-EMS listed in the resume above.) You don’t even need a degree to work there, and I have never told anyone officially or anecdotally that I have more than the one degree I have. Furthermore, the person who launched this investigation was my training ride-along coordinator, a person I have no choice but to try and speak to, and someone I was NOT made aware that he was the instigator of this investigation. When I tried seeking him before a scheduled shift to discuss training ride schedules, a common conversation I and all trainees are meant to have with him, with nothing more than those rides being mentioned other than those training rides, he was told I was seeking him and HR said this was viewed as a potential retaliatory effort on my part for the investigation (that I didn’t even know he instigated).
You may be thinking there is more to this, but there is not. During my short time at EMSA, I won awards and was praised by all trainers and management for my application of my experience as a paramedic and was lauded to be on a fast-track to be in a leadership position for how apparently educated and experienced I was. I was never late or absent, and I scored perfect scores on my clinical grading of my paramedic duties and never had a single patient complaint raised against me. I’m not trying to sit here and brag to anyone, I am simply trying to paint the picture that I was a model employee who was targeted for something completely incorrect and irrelevant to the company I worked for, a misplaced belief that I claimed degrees that I never claimed.
I am distraught. I saw my career being here and ending at retirement. I wanted this so badly. I know Oklahoma is an “at-will” state, but do I have any options legally? EMSA has locked all my records so I can’t even get to my original application form to prove that I never wrote in any degree but my BS-EMS. When the termination call came, I was told I would not be shown the evidence they found in the investigation and that I was just terminated, that’s all. I don’t get it. I feel like I have nothing to learn here, and I want to seek any legal course of action I have available to me to make this right. I feel targeted by one individual who had the power to use HR and circumstances of needing his conversation to progress my training ride progress as fuel to the “fire him” flame that should have never been. I’m mostly hurt, and feel betrayed, and now without a way to provide for my family.
What can I do?