Another story sent in by a person that screams an in-justice. 

My Co-Workers -- or should I say my co-stabbers

I work for a company (which I will not mention) that is very large in size. I am a supervisor of 7 technicians or should I say 7 little kids. I have this one technician for some reason can't seem to get things together; how he made it this far I have no idea. Anyway, he calls a customer and states I'll be there in 5 minutes. Hangs up the phone disappears and you don't seem him for the rest of the day. Customer calls me the next day and states he never showed up. Hum, so you ask him what had happened, and he gives you this blank stare. A stare that apparently he has mastered, because your so frustrated you decide to say the hell with it, why waist your time. This goes on for several months, the same old dog and pony show, how wonderful it is to be a supervisor. I finally get to the point I can't take this shit anymore and I proceed to HR to see what can be done. HR tells me: make sure you have a book written on this and then another one to back up the first one. To say the least you'd hope the guy would quit before you can gather enough evidence to get him fired. ACLU and the Active Rights people really do there job to protect losers. This is a right to work state, so that means I can fire you without any reason, but oh Johnny Cochran would be right there to collect his fair share of the lawsuit. Back to the loser technician, I gather the information for HR and we have a meeting. Based on the meeting, he blames me for everything and how unfair I am to him and how I mistreated him. Mind you this guy is 40 years old, lives is a trailer park and commutes with another guy because the 4 cars in which he has don't run. See were I am going with this: loser with a capital L. So upper management decides to move him to another supervisor, you would think, YES, finally got ride of this SOB. Wait, now the upper Management turns to you and states because we are not sure who is telling the truth we need to place both of you under observations. Am I pissed? That's an understatement, knowing that I have busted my ass to get this far and to think someone who is great at working around system drug me into it. I am really pissed at myself for allowing this to continue for as long as it did. After the meeting, I calmly and professional bite my tongue and agree to terms. One thing I will give my wife credit for this statement, "a leopard does not change their colors over night". How true it is. When the Loser thought he had pulled another fast one by making me look bad all I had to do was let go and he would eventually hang himself. Sure enough, it's happening now. His current supervisor states to me, he blames me for everything, I am not fair and I miss-judge him. I turn to her and say: "Now its your time to go thru what I have been going thru for the past year. Have fun, oh yea by the way, it's your babe, now rock it. As for the upper Managers that questioned my ability to supervise, all that I can say is: I guess perception isn't always a reality, now go buy that Mercedes you always wanted, because you can look yourself in the mirror and say: "I did a great job today. I've made a difference". Did you now!