CrimsonStorm1968

Review of UAH

I am a former employee with UAH grounds departmen...

I am a former employee with UAH grounds department . I worked with them for right at a year and was terminated once then rehired. The head of the grounds department called me and asked me to come back to work because he had made a mistake. I was terminated because of the careless and poor work ethic of another employee . We had done a parking lot clean up job and it was not done to completion .I told that employee that job was unacceptable and I felt like it was sub standard work. He had worked there longer than I and said it would be okay and we would get it later, so I said okay but I still think we need to get this done right .The supervisor saw it and we were called to his office . A day or so after ,I was called to his office and was terminated . The person I was working with later confessed it was not my fault and I was rehired . A few months later , I was at work and was called in for a review . After my review , I received a phone call from an employee saying they needed some pruning shears . I went to the site they were working at and was confronted by another employee I had previous negative dealings with . That employee first shoved me and then hit me in the face twice . I never retaliated nor laid a hand on that employee . I instead reported the incident to the head of the grounds department . The police were notified and there was a police report filed. I was sent home and went to the hospital for minor injuries and to be checked out .A few weeks later after being out of work with no pay ,I received a letter in the mail telling me I had been terminated from my job.The letter had come from the same person who previously terminated me. The letter stated that I had came to that job site and initiated the altercation which was not true seeing as to that employee was not the one who reported the incident nor was that employee injured,I was . The other employee did not have a scratch on him so the truth was quite self evident . I later went to UAHs website to look at their employee roster and apparently, this employee still has his job .When I came into that job ,I was a permanant hire on because of my 30 years of experience in that field and I also have a degree with honors in Landscape Management . The employee who accausted me got hired on from being a temp who had NO experience in that field of work. I was accausted then fired from my job ,that employee kept his job .Now, I really cannot make heads or tails of how that employee was able to keep his job when the head of the Grounds department knew good and well what actually happened,but the letter I received was a plethora of fabricated lies . The only conclusion I can come to is that they cater to certain employees more than others . Also, for them to allow this to happen at all without that other employee not being terminated is nothing short of deplorable and unacceptable . The work place is supposed to be a safe place for ALL employees . I was set up by his friends then accausted by that employee and nothing was done in my favor . I got terminated and that employee kept his job .Again , unacceptable! Apparently his friends at the job site told the supervisor something way different from what really happened and due to their lies, I got shafted .Well there we go , the lesser qualified employee gets away with a criminal act and keeps his job and I get unjustly terminated then the case gets dropped and swept under the rug . Shame on you UAH and shame on the UAH grounds management,you know who you are. If I had more witnesses in my favor ,I would have sued UAH ,the person who accausted me and the supervisor who fired me and who knows , maybe just one honest person with any degree of integrity may just step forward and the truth come out .As for rating UAH ,you are not even worthy of the one star rating and the only reason you got that was so I could do this write up . Letting others know the kind of things that go on behind the scenes whether they believe the truth or not seems to be the only way I can find closure to this Injustice for now.