Government Abuse Legal Fund
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Friends and family, I need your help.
I have been working as a contracts manager in the Government for three years. Recently while testifying under oath, I told the truth. Unfortunately, my boss was expecting me to say something different. He decided to fire me. I feel it was retaliation and now need to hire an attorney to help me keep my job. I have no funds to retain an attorney as the last of my money is going towards paying my mortgage and feeding my kids. Please donate whatever you can to help me keep my career, house, and healthy kids.
Some Background Context -
I know fighting the government to get your job back isn't sexy or often highlighted but when telling the truth gets you fired I feel that I need to fight back. A black woman was accused of stealing another co-workers ipod (while I was being asked to fire another black co-worker). I knew this woman took the ipod of the other co-worker to return it to him and when I was asked to testify I was asked "Do you think I am a thief and that I stole that ipod?" my response was "no.". I knew this employee took the ipod to give it back to her friend but my boss wanted to get rid of her so he had her brought up on theft charges. She won based on my testimony and I got fired.
I am an honest woman that tried to defend two black people in my department. One ultimately got fired, the other one I helped with my testimony. I got screwed a week before Thanksgiving.
Thanks for reading. I'm just trying not to get screwed over by the "system". I know I can and WILL win!
I have been working as a contracts manager in the Government for three years. Recently while testifying under oath, I told the truth. Unfortunately, my boss was expecting me to say something different. He decided to fire me. I feel it was retaliation and now need to hire an attorney to help me keep my job. I have no funds to retain an attorney as the last of my money is going towards paying my mortgage and feeding my kids. Please donate whatever you can to help me keep my career, house, and healthy kids.
Some Background Context -
I know fighting the government to get your job back isn't sexy or often highlighted but when telling the truth gets you fired I feel that I need to fight back. A black woman was accused of stealing another co-workers ipod (while I was being asked to fire another black co-worker). I knew this woman took the ipod of the other co-worker to return it to him and when I was asked to testify I was asked "Do you think I am a thief and that I stole that ipod?" my response was "no.". I knew this employee took the ipod to give it back to her friend but my boss wanted to get rid of her so he had her brought up on theft charges. She won based on my testimony and I got fired.
I am an honest woman that tried to defend two black people in my department. One ultimately got fired, the other one I helped with my testimony. I got screwed a week before Thanksgiving.
Thanks for reading. I'm just trying not to get screwed over by the "system". I know I can and WILL win!
Organizer
Michelle Maddox Paggeot
Organizer
Aurora, CO