Update on King and the Situation...

...which is what we call the fact that King's unemployment was denied. It says that he was informed of the policy he violated when he was fired, which he was not. Not exactly. He was told it was for not writing up an employee of seventeen years for bringing a porn tape into work. He didn't because the client said not to.

In security, you do what the client tells you to do. I put out a fire, for instance. I am not trained to put out flaming test matresses. But I did, at a site where mattress, couches, beds and walls are burnt to see if they burn. The one night I watched an explosion test, the guys running it gave me ear protection. The night the mattress caught on fire, I called the volunteer fire department, then the client (who'd later complain that I called the FD even though she'd told my supervisor to tell officers if a fire started to call the FD). The client told me to turn the hose on it. I protested. She told me again to do it, so I did. This was a double-size mattress, completely engulfed (it had reignited because it wasn't properly extinguished to begin with), and the wind was blowing towards the only wooden building on the site, about fifty feet away.

The building, um, that I stayed in between patrols. So, I turned the hose on the stupid mattress, standing downwind, der, (BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT EXTINGUISHING A MATTRESS FIRE AND I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO), and the steam roiled up and blew straight into my face, burning my throat.

The FD came out, soaked the thing, and said, "NOW if it starts up again, call us. We'd like to see that."

I saved their stupid fucking building and their business (try getting insurance after some fucknuckle burns down your place for not following the directions that keep your insurance), and all I got was bitching.

At another site, I helped the police collar a coke dealer. I got a "done good" via my super from Houston, and a client who said to leave drunks in cars alone since they might be building tenants.

So, here's King, who is told by the client to tell a guy to take the tape home. He did. The guy apparently brought it back, because when it was looked for it was found.

King fell through a floor and was back at work within a day, only to have the client verbally abuse him for showing up. (There was no on else to cover the shift.) He figures the client called his super and complained he'd SHOWED UP FOR WORK, and the super used the tape thing (which he could've only known about if the client TOLD him) to fire King.

The basis of the sexual harassment policy violation is that King didn't write the guy up. It doesn't mater that no one complained, the stuff was there, and King tried to save the guy. King didn't get fired for the guy bringing the tape in AGAIN, he got fired, supposedly, for not writing it up the first time.

But here's the thing: King was harassed, too. And we're likely to file suit against the client and the remaining employee (who are very tight) for harassing King. Because they'd sit in a room between patrols and watch TV (rigged up by King at the client's insistence), and tell each other, in graphic detail, what they liked, sex-wise. Three ways, "playing for the other team", and oral were some of the subjects covered. King would leave the room. We can make an excellent case, I think, that King lost his job for not at least being their audience, never mind joining in.

We can also prove Kind was coerced into signing an incrimiating dismissal form to get his checks. I shared THAT with the company's lawyer. The whole thing pisses me off.
Sucks, doesn't it?

Meanwhile, King is working as a courier, we see yet another attorney on the 20th of this month, and he's got an interview for a supervisor's position on Monday. We bought a health discount plan, so we can see our family doctor, and my head doctor's secretary hooked me up with services for people with crap supervisors.

Anyway, back to Near-Life, because ever so much more fun than documenting how much King's former company sucks.