Old email to manager.
"to Steve ... , regarding me, Irina ... and ... supervisor, Brian ...
Good day Steve,
This is Irina ..., and I am writing to explain what happened between me and the ... supervisor Brian ... , on Friday, September 22, 2023.
Brian told me on that Friday, he will write a report about me to you and I want to tell my side of the story as well.
I am writing not only as an employee of ... I am writing also as human being, a woman, I can say, white woman and citizen of Canada. White woman, because this would not happen and never happened at this work place to any woman of color.
I would stay quiet, but I don't want to be and especially, feel like Teresa ..., that there's no hope at the work place. Teresa ..., on who Brian raised voice in public, with who he provoked fights, did not listen, did care to listen and finally when he called her in the office yelling, that day, Teresa said that she cannot do this any more and she quit her job as a picker.
On Friday, in the morning, I noticed Brian was watching me. And he has been watching me every working day for years.
Mery .., who was a supervisor, years ago, she called me in the lunch room and she said “Brian wants to fire you”. And I wrote previous complaint, more than ... years ago, when you called me in the office. When Brian told me “F” word in my face for something I was not responsible.
From that time every day he is watching me, in the isles, he comes and tells me “You are slow, I have to write about it”. And what should I do, in the isle?
When we had one wash room, he called me in the office, asking why I went to the wash room 30 minutes after my break? I looked at the clock before going to the office, it was 4:15, and my break was finished at 3:30. I said that's it 45 minutes, and Brian replied “I don't care, you have to go to washroom on your breaks".
When we pick on carts with skate boards, he wrote me a report and told to sign that I was not using the skate board all the time. I had transmission on it, that did not fit in the cart and was walking. And he wrote in the report “you have to use the skate board all the time, no walking with the carts at all”.
Every day, when he is at work, he is picking on me, watching me. Many times he is calling me in the office, disrespectfully in front of other employees. “Go to the office!”
When I was doing “Cannot finds”, which I was told to do, Brian was calling me “What are you doing!”
I said “I do cannot finds”, and again from him “go pick, go ship, go pack!” And he was not treating like this employee who was that station before me.
These two months, August and September, 2023. I was picking big stock transfers.
In isle M38 A01, they were heavy boxes with transmissions, in the location on the skid, the top parts above my head. About 20 pounds each box. I needed 6 boxes. I went to Steve Higgins to ask to help me put the top boxes on the cart. I couldn't physically reach it, or I had to push boxes on the floor. Brian was in the office, talking to Flori. Steve came to help me, only put 2 top boxes on the cart.
Next minute, Brian comes and watching us, than makes angry face and leaves. I could see his angry face, and Steve Higgins could see his angry face.
Then few weeks ago, the supervisor, James, asks me to pack on the second station. I go to the packing station, its the one that facing the office, I see Brian is watching me, and he is angry, he says something to himself, and walks fast from his desk to James, who was working at the shipping station computer, right near where have to pack.
Brian tells James, in front of me and there were some other people. Brian says to James “Why she is packing! Tell her her go and pick”. And tells to me in hatefully way, I can see it “Please, go to pick! Please go pick!” Then he calls James aside, James comes to me and tell me that Brian told me pick the whole day.
A week ago, Brian calls me at the shipping computer, tells me, I am slow, my numbers are low, the supervisor is there again. And the numbers are “green”, the previous day, zone 4 was in yellow, zone 1 in green. And he says, that its all still below.
Then the supervisor tells me, after “Oh, don't worry, take it easy”.
And its like this almost every day.
On Friday, September, 22, Brian is watching me and I know, he will call me in the office.
In 12:45 he calls me in the office. I started to pick different stock transfer at 11:15, went on my lunch at 11:30 to 12 , and at 12 : 15, I was almost done picking. Jaden supposed to pick this stock transfer, but he went for lunch, and I was told to finish it, 32 lines, zone 4 and I had 5 parts to pick.
Brian calls me “Go to the office!' I go to the office, standing near the door. Brian stand near his computer, he says “Anything wrong? Why are you here? You can leave your scanner and go home”. I say “why? And then he exploded. Like if he had right to spit in my face, he would spit in my face.
He started to yell at me, that I am slow. That he is watching me, you are watching me, the company is watching me. Then he start to look at my numbers of picks. And he was “You don't have to work here, leave your scanner, take your things and go home, you numbers are low, no point of you to work here”.
My scanner was still on, with picks in zone 4. I said, I want to sign out from picking. I don't remember how long he was yelling like this at me, I started to cry, because I thought he is firing me from the job. I did not expect it, this anger, and its not angry employer talking to employee. It feels like person who hates you personally is talking to you. You cannot hide this kind of hate.
People in the different department saw him yelling at me, and asked me, after what happened.
I worked all day, on Friday, because again, I did not want to be like Teresa, cry and go home.
And its all affecting me, my health, every day I think about it, have anxiety, stress, upset, feel like I am being looked from up to down, and this why, I don't want it go on like this, with stress and harassment at work place.
Thank you."
