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If an EEOC charge is filed before an adverse event (termination), does the employer generally move towards termination?

Or

Do they try to remedy the issue that related to the employee's charge in the first place?

Filing after the adverse event (a termination) is already understood. Just curious what typically happens while the employee is still employed?

The added incidents arise from the same underlying problem in my current charge, that supports requesting an amendment rather than starting from scratch. EEOC says it can add later discriminatory events to an open charge and investigate them with the original allegations, although it can still choose to open a separate charge if appropriate.

**So what is the deciding factor for adding to current charge or starting a new one?**

I really believe it should just be added. I filed a charge (which is common around here) for ADA, failure to accommodate, failure to engage in the interactive accommodation process to keeping me out on unpaid leave for three weeks.

They brought me back to work just in another department which could have been done without having to keep me out on unpaid leave. I reviewed the company's policies, this is not a frivolous charge of a disgruntled employee. I have cancer and I filed a meritorious charge against a large employer for trying to push me out of my job after asking for simple, not costly accommodations in a retail job. And they responded by dismissing me from the job on paid leave for a week and then umpaid leave for 3 more weeks until finally bringing me back.

This employer has a reputation for EEOC suing them for failure to accommodate and then having the DOJ Institute mandatory consent judgments with hefty fines.

These new allegations are related to my original allegations because they involve the same accommodation issue/the same managers/the same department/a continuation of the same treatment/retaliation after my protected complaint.

And I also learned that since the EEOC rarely Investigates charges, let's face it they're understaffed, have over 200 charges a month individually, hold the charges in their database and just move the paperwork back and forth between charging party and the employer. I have yet to receive a position statement, and it is possible I never will.

I've returned to work, but the unpaid leave matter is something that cannot be ignored or swept under the rug. I read the policies about "Known and Observable" conditions and they employer responded by keeping me out of work hoping I would quit until I kept documenting and following up bypassing the barriers they tried to set and returned to work 20 days later.

Location: Tennessee

Hi all,

I'm not sure where to post this. I'm driving through Tennessee and parked my car at Starbucks.

I have a clear driving record and no insurance claims. And a woman hit my parked car when I was sitting in my car. I got out to take pictures and then spoke to her as she tried to get back in and drive off. She denied it as I was taking picture of my car and hers.

Unbelievable!

She says she didn't hit my car when I'm sitting inside it drinking coffee and reading a book and feel the tap.

Her white paint was clear on my car. She still denied it and didn't offer her insurance. I took a video of her driving her car, driving away.

Should I just eat the paint repair loss and keep my insurance clean. That's all I care about. If I call my insurance then I pay my deductible and my rates go up. It's not worth filing a claim for a paint smear.

I am more concerned that she denied it. I would have never done that to someone else if it was me. There is no dent, just paint damage.

My car is over 8 years old, nothing fancy. It runs. No injuries. I just needed to share.

Hi all,

I'm not sure where to post this. I'm driving through Tennessee and parked my car at Starbucks.

I have a clear driving record and no insurance claims. And a woman hit my parked car when I was sitting in my car. I got out to take pictures and then spoke to her as she tried to get back in and drive off. She denied it as I was taking picture of my car and hers.

Unbelievable!

She says she didn't hit my car when I'm sitting inside it drinking coffee and reading a book and feel the tap.

Her white paint was clear on my car. She still denied it and didn't offer her insurance. I took a video of her driving her car, driving away.

Should I just eat the paint repair loss and keep my insurance clean. That's all I care about. If I call my insurance then I pay my deductible and my rates go up. It's not worth filing a claim for a paint smear.

I am more concerned that she denied it. I would have never done that to someone else if it was me. There is no dent, just paint damage.

My car is over 8 years old, nothing fancy. It runs. No injuries. I just needed to share.

​

I am currently not legally represented.

**Does the employer's legal representative who receives the charge have access to the documents I submit to the portal?**

It is unrealistic to expect an EEOC investigator handling more than [200] charges each month to have time to thoroughly review every document uploaded to the portal. In many cases, their workload simply does not allow it.

Does that mean uploading my supplemental evidence documents may be a waste of time, since the EEOC process is primarily administrative and electronic? My understanding is that the employer submits a position statement, the charging party has an opportunity to review it and decide whether to submit a rebuttal, and the EEOC then eventually issues a Notice of Right to Sue.

**Within what time frame does an employer have to submit their position statement to the EEOC?**

**My employer put me on unpaid leave after I requested a reasonable accommodation and they failed to engage in the interactive accommodation discussion.**

Then they offered me to come back to work, but then told me in an email that I can't until the accommodation claim is closed with their vendor company Sedgwick. I never opened up an accommodation claim with Sedgwick, my employer's HR person did. I have cancer and have no access to healthcare. [I'm not here to dive into insurance discussions or local clinics. I do not have access to any doctor because I do not have insurance or an established physician. The cancer diagnosis came from a hospital system while on their charity care plan and they will not remove it for free].

Employer is playing musical chairs by involving multiple HR staff from various stores because the one at my store is unable to answer any questions.

Hello Global Work colleagues.

I appreciate the opportunity to join this group and look forward to learning more about remote work opportunities alongside everyone here.

My professional background has primarily been in on-site roles across several industries; finance, insurance, Human Resources, property management, legal administration and sales. I am a​ lifelong learner who genuinely enjoyed my college years. And if I could do it all over again, I would have pursued law school.

One challenge I continue to face is applying for remote positions is the emphasis on “recent experience” requirements. I am often told that because I have not held a specific title within the last five years, I am not considered a fit, despite having prior experience and transferable skills. Much of my career has involved moving across industries and locations, and I also took time away from traditional employment to complete both my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, that recency gap has continued to affect my job search, even though I remain adaptable, motivated, and eager to contribute. I am also navigating this as a single-income individual over 40, seeking stable remote work that reflects my work ethic, broad experience, and need for sustainable compensation.I joined this group to learn, connect, and better understand how others have successfully transitioned into remote work after career shifts or employment gaps.

Hello Global Work colleagues.

I appreciate the opportunity to join this group and look forward to learning more about remote work opportunities alongside everyone here.

My professional background has primarily been in on-site roles across several industries; finance, insurance, Human Resources, property management, legal administration and sales. I am a​ lifelong learner who genuinely enjoyed my college years. And if I could do it all over again, I would have pursued law school.

One challenge I continue to face is applying for remote positions is the emphasis on “recent experience” requirements. I am often told that because I have not held a specific title within the last five years, I am not considered a fit, despite having prior experience and transferable skills. Much of my career has involved moving across industries and locations, and I also took time away from traditional employment to complete both my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, that recency gap has continued to affect my job search, even though I remain adaptable, motivated, and eager to contribute. I am also navigating this as a single-income individual over 40, seeking stable remote work that reflects my work ethic, broad experience, and need for sustainable compensation.I joined this group to learn, connect, and better understand how others have successfully transitioned into remote work after career shifts or employment gaps.

My cancers are complex and my situation very unique. They're located on my face and neck.

I have three biopsy-confirmed basal cell carcinomas. One above my eyebrow, one at my temple, one on my neck. Margins are involved on more than one site, which means this isn't a "freeze it off in one visit" situation.

I need Mohs surgery and reconstruction. I'm 50s, never married, no children, no family nearby, and I've been self-sufficient since I was 21. None of that has ever been a problem for me before. It is now.

Here's what the system actually looks like from where I'm standing, not the brochure version:

I don't have insurance. That locks me out of the regional healthcare market almost entirely, not because the cancer isn't real, but because I can't produce a card. FQHCs will see me for primary care. They will not touch a multi-site Mohs case with reconstruction. Teaching hospitals will see me too, but not at the standard-of-care an insured patient gets for something this complex. I get triaged into whatever tier "uninsured" puts me in, not the tier my pathology puts me in.

I finally found a dermatologist who does Mohs, in a practice owned by private equity. The visit wasn't a medical evaluation. It was an assessment of me: my appearance, my marital status, my presumed ability to pay. I could feel it happening in real time. I wasn't a patient in pain to that office. I was a risk profile. That's not paranoia. It's just what happens when the person across the desk from you is optimizing for margin, not outcome. Let that sink in.

Medicine as a business transaction, like getting a car fixed, except the car doesn't have to sit in a waiting room absorbing how it's being sized up.

I can't even get a good faith estimate to plan around, because getting a GFE requires being far enough inside the system to ask for one, and I'm not in it.

Meanwhile I'm working a low-wage job I took to survive and I'm **currently on unpaid leave** not my choice, but the employer's choice, over an accommodation dispute, that can't accommodate my lesions due to appearance issues and my income needs.

I have No income. No paid leave. No support person to hand me a glass of water after facial reconstruction surgery, let alone drive me home from it.

Recovery time is a luxury item and I can't afford the sticker price, on top of not being able to afford the surgery itself.

The facial sites are the ones I'm most focused on right now, because you cannot walk into a job interview with open lesions on your forehead and temple and expect anyone to look past it. So there's this absurd catch-22 sitting underneath all of it: I need to work to eventually pay for treatment, and I need treatment to be employable in the fields I'm credentialed for. I’m not saying low-wage work is beneath me. I’m saying that physically demanding, low-wage work cannot financially or physically sustain my situation, particularly while I’m dealing with major medical treatment and recovery.

I'm not posting this looking for advice. I know what the resources are and I know their **limits** better than most people ever will. I'm posting it because **I don't think most people who have insurance and a support system understand what "uninsured" actually costs you before you ever get near a surgical bill,**it costs you being treated like a person with a body that's in trouble, instead of a line item someone's deciding whether to write.

Note: I’m not looking for “try a social worker,” “try a teaching hospital,” or “apply for nonprofit assistance” suggestions, or medicaid when I'm not eligible and most doctors don't accept it. I have already researched that. The problem is that the available resources address **fragmented pieces** of my situation, insurance, transportation, medical care, food, housing, or bills, rather than the intersection of all of them at once, including living expenses, transportation, daily-living needs, recovery support, and maintaining independence. I need a solution that addresses the whole situation, not another program designed to solve only one piece of it.

Has anyone here personally experienced this as a single, middle-aged adult?

My cancers are complex and my situation very unique. They're located on my face and neck.

I have three biopsy-confirmed basal cell carcinomas. One above my eyebrow, one at my temple, one on my neck. Margins are involved on more than one site, which means this isn't a "freeze it off in one visit" situation.

I need Mohs surgery and reconstruction. I'm 50s, never married, no children, no family nearby, and I've been self-sufficient since I was 21. None of that has ever been a problem for me before. It is now.

Here's what the system actually looks like from where I'm standing, not the brochure version:

I don't have insurance. That locks me out of the regional healthcare market almost entirely, not because the cancer isn't real, but because I can't produce a card. FQHCs will see me for primary care. They will not touch a multi-site Mohs case with reconstruction. Teaching hospitals will see me too, but not at the standard-of-care an insured patient gets for something this complex. I get triaged into whatever tier "uninsured" puts me in, not the tier my pathology puts me in.

I finally found a dermatologist who does Mohs, in a practice owned by private equity. The visit wasn't a medical evaluation. It was an assessment of me: my appearance, my marital status, my presumed ability to pay. I could feel it happening in real time. I wasn't a patient in pain to that office. I was a risk profile. That's not paranoia. It's just what happens when the person across the desk from you is optimizing for margin, not outcome. Let that sink in.

Medicine as a business transaction, like getting a car fixed, except the car doesn't have to sit in a waiting room absorbing how it's being sized up.

I can't even get a good faith estimate to plan around, because getting a GFE requires being far enough inside the system to ask for one, and I'm not in it.

Meanwhile I'm working a low-wage job I took to survive and I'm **currently on unpaid leave** not my choice, but the employer's choice, over an accommodation dispute, that can't accommodate my lesions due to appearance issues and my income needs. I'm (living in my car - housing programs don't have availability, no single spaces with agency and autonomy, they lock-in the unhoused status in their background check systems that match what employers can find when looking for a job).

I have No income. No paid leave. No support person to hand me a glass of water after facial reconstruction surgery, let alone drive me home from it.

Recovery time is a luxury item and I can't afford the sticker price, on top of not being able to afford the surgery itself.

The facial sites are the ones I'm most focused on right now, because you cannot walk into a job interview with open lesions on your forehead and temple and expect anyone to look past it. So there's this absurd catch-22 sitting underneath all of it: I need to work to eventually pay for treatment, and I need treatment to be employable in the fields I'm credentialed for. I’m not saying low-wage work is beneath me. I’m saying that physically demanding, low-wage work cannot financially or physically sustain my situation, particularly while I’m dealing with major medical treatment and recovery.

I'm not posting this looking for advice. I know what the resources are and I know their **limits** better than most people ever will. I'm posting it because **I don't think most people who have insurance and a support system understand what "uninsured" actually costs you before you ever get near a surgical bill,**it costs you being treated like a person with a body that's in trouble, instead of a line item someone's deciding whether to write.

Note: I’m not looking for “try a social worker,” “try a teaching hospital,” or “apply for nonprofit assistance” suggestions, or medicaid when I'm not eligible and most doctors don't accept it. I have already researched that. The problem is that the available resources address **fragmented pieces** of my situation, insurance, transportation, medical care, food, housing, or bills, rather than the intersection of all of them at once, including living expenses, transportation, daily-living needs, recovery support, and maintaining independence. I need a solution that addresses the whole situation, not another program designed to solve only one piece of it.

Has anyone here personally experienced this as a single, middle-aged adult?

Hello skin cancer family,

I have posted here before. My cancers are complex and my situation very unique.

I have three biopsy-confirmed basal cell carcinomas. One above my eyebrow, one at my temple, one on my neck. Margins are involved on more than one site, which means this isn't a "freeze it off in one visit" situation.

I need Mohs surgery and reconstruction. I'm 50s, never married, no children, no family nearby, and I've been self-sufficient since I was 21. None of that has ever been a problem for me before. It is now.

Here's what the system actually looks like from where I'm standing, not the brochure version:

I don't have insurance. That locks me out of the regional healthcare market almost entirely, not because the cancer isn't real, but because I can't produce a card. FQHCs will see me for primary care. They will not touch a multi-site Mohs case with reconstruction. Teaching hospitals will see me too, but not at the standard-of-care an insured patient gets for something this complex. I get triaged into whatever tier "uninsured" puts me in, not the tier my pathology puts me in.

I finally found a dermatologist who does Mohs, in a practice owned by private equity. The visit wasn't a medical evaluation. It was an assessment of me: my appearance, my marital status, my presumed ability to pay. I could feel it happening in real time. I wasn't a patient in pain to that office. I was a risk profile. That's not paranoia, that's just what happens when the person across the desk from you is optimizing for margin, not outcome. Let that sink in.

Medicine as a business transaction, like getting a car fixed, except the car doesn't have to sit in a waiting room absorbing how it's being sized up.

I can't even get a good faith estimate to plan around, because getting a GFE requires being far enough inside the system to ask for one, and I'm not in it.

Meanwhile I'm working a low-wage job I took to survive, and I'm **currently on unpaid leave** not my choice, the employer's, over an unrelated accommodation dispute. No income. No paid leave. No support person to hand me a glass of water after facial reconstruction surgery, let alone drive me home from it.

Recovery time is a luxury item and I can't afford the sticker price, on top of not being able to afford the surgery itself.

The facial sites are the ones I'm most focused on right now, because you cannot walk into a job interview with open lesions on your forehead and temple and expect anyone to look past it. So there's this absurd catch-22 sitting underneath all of it: I need to work to eventually pay for treatment, and I need treatment to be employable in the fields I'm credentialed for.

I'm not posting this looking for advice. I know what the resources are and I know their **limits** better than most people ever will. I'm posting it because I don't think most people who have insurance and a support system understand what "uninsured" actually costs you before you ever get near a surgical bill, it costs you being treated like a person with a body that's in trouble, instead of a line item someone's deciding whether to write off.

If you left a job off your resume, did your employer ever discover it later? Can you be terminated for it?

As an example, a job you had during the Covid pandemic, that you started during the pandemic but it unfortunately ended during the pandemic.

How many people take gig jobs and don't list all of them? I'm asking because some employers look for reasons to not hire or get rid of older workers.

Another question, what about the "recency gap" excuse. What if you haven't worked in insurance for 5 plus years but your knowledge never left you, you take gig jobs in between to try to keep cash flow coming in and the company you apply to turns you down for lacking "recent relevant" experience...how do you get back into the workforce?

I have been diagnosed with BCC on my face and neck. One 4 years ago and the other two years ago. I don't have access to Mohs surgery which is what I was told I needed.

My post isn't about soliciting information about insurance of clinical trials. To those of us with facial and neck cancers, we know how important it is to get them removed. I am unable to get access to care. I apply for jobs, wear bandages and then get pushed out of work once it's discovered that those bandages are worn daily to cover up the lesions.

I'm not eligible for Medicaid or Medicare. The only way for me to get them removed it to have private health insurance from an employer. But at middle age the employer's won't keep me employed because the lesions are visible and painful. I know we can't post the photos here and I will follow the rules and not do that. All doctors have to be paid. But my lesions are preventing me from getting hired. ​

Location: Florida

I accepted an hourly position at big-box retail store. I am middle aged and they put me in a department involving heavy lifting. I need more of a lighter duty role which they do offer, but didn't offer to me. I have cancer lesions on my face and neck which are covered with a bandaid. I can't afford the surgeries to remove them.

Their benefits are costly. Customers and associates would ask me what happened to my face. I had no attendance issues and no performance issues. But HR put me on paid leave for 5 days **after** i requested an accommodation and a discussion of modified work duities or a transfer to another store/department. They kept me out of work and put me on unpaid until I can obtain a doctor's note. I told them I can't get a specialty doctor to write what my work restrictions are. They require payment and an established relationship and ideally insurance. I'm not here to discuss insurance. I'm not eligible for Medicaid/care coverage. I gave them what I had 3 year pathology reports documenting the lesions. They still avoided an interactive accommodation discussion.

I have prior professional experience. But due to the visible lesions I can't get hired anywhere. HR will not engage in the interactive accommodation discussion. I'm left in limbo without any resolution and no one to discuss this with. They won't respond to my emails either. I had no attendance issues and no write-ups. ​

I asked for accommodation → employer requested medical paperwork → paperwork became impossible to obtain → employee was left off the schedule

They have someone from their home office calling me tomorrow. I'll have my questions ready and just answer their questions with brevity. They already took me off the schedule so I don't know what their plans are.

Has anyone heard of something like this? ​​

I have a question about ADA accommodations.

I have a documented cancer diagnosis + no treating physician relationship + no ability to complete the standard provider paperwork for a request for reassignment consideration.

Reason. I am uninsured and cannot afford to buy and use health insurance on my pay. Despite my providing my employer my pathology reports from a couple of years ago showing cancer, I have no treating doctor due to lack of insurance. Not all doctors, even if you have an insurance plan, can fill out lengthy ADA paperwork and list work restrictions. Many will charge a fee.

Is there a workaround for this. U.S.A. Employer has ever 5,000 employees. If the employee worked previously in corporate jobs involving sedentary work and this current job is physical service work and the company has other corporate roles which I am qualified to do, can that switch be a legitimate accommodation request?

Location: Alabama

I have posted here several times and I wanted to share an update. Thankfully, my case was dismissed.

To the individual who tracked my posts and said, "I've seen your posts several times, just plea not guilty, if the state has no evidence they should dismiss it."

Thank you.

I represented myself pro se because the attorneys I had [and I learned this here] were retained only to treat my case like throughput, and to push a plea for a diversion program that I did not need, want nor pertained to my situation.

If I had any substances in my body and I was guilty, I would definitely get an attorney. But because I had nothing in my system, and no driving infraction or moving violation, I did not need one.

I had nothing in my system or in my possession and the state couldnt prove it. I drove a couple of hours away to appear by myself and the cop didn't show up. I had to sign a release that I would not file a civil lawsuit in exchange for a complete dismissal.

I will never drive through or back to that state where I was treated so horribly from one false DUI arrest.

But this experience was educational. It made me realize what do people do who don't get solid representation when they can't afford it. How do these officers get away with false arrests. The trauma and impact on the person handcuffed and arrested is enormous and frightening. It's something I won't choose to remember, but something I'll never forget.

Will I regret this? I have an unreliable Samsung Galaxy A16 budget phone. It crashes and doesnt hold the charge. I am looking at:

I-17 Pro

256gb $1,100

512gb $1,300

I-17 Pro Max (larger size)

256gb $1,200

512gb $1,400

Coming from a budget Android A16, will a 512gb hold me over for 3 years and keep a reliable charge? I don't take a lot of videos and photos. I need a reliable phone that holds its charge, can allow me to use email and text reliably and use Waze GPS.

I hired an attorney out of state who works for Big Law and who said something about post hac arrangement that needs to be done to represent me in court for this employment law matter I initially filed pro se.

That was three weeks ago. She hasnt filed an appearance yet with the counsel that is in the state where this matter happened.

How long does it typically take to get that set up?

I'll preface that this is an unusual post and situation, so please bear with me. I'm looking for some perspective because my case seems very different from the DUI cases I usually read about. I've posted before, so if anyone's seen my previous posts, bear with me. I have a trial date in a few weeks, which is why I'm posting again.

I reside out of state in an adjacent state. I was arrested for DUI controlled substance but there's no substance listed in the report. I had no alcohol or illegal substances in my body, and nothing was found on my person or in my vehicle. I have my own cell phone video of the entire encounter, which I believe clearly shows I was not impaired.

If there truly were:

no poor driving,

no odor of alcohol,

no drugs or alcohol found,

no slurred speech,

no confusion,

no balance or coordination problems,

no bloodshot eyes or other physical signs, and my phone

video showing me speaking and behaving normally,

then a central question becomes: what specific facts did the officer rely on to establish probable cause?

Looking back, I wonder whether my communication style played a role. I'm from Northern New Jersey and come from an Italian family where speaking loudly, directly, and with expressive body language is normal. Ironically, some of the same cues officers are trained to associate with impairment, talking louder than usual, speaking quickly, being direct or over-explaining are also just normal traits of my regional and cultural communication style. I wasn't intoxicated. I wonder whether an officer unfamiliar with that style read it as a red flag rather than recognizing it as simply how I talk.

I consulted three different defense attorneys. Every one of them immediately pushed diversion instead of discussing the evidence or possible defenses. When I declined because I maintain I was not impaired, none of them wanted to take the case to trial. The impression I was left with was that the case simply wasn't financially worthwhile for them.

This is a very small, tiny town, that is under resourced and has drug trafficking issues and I got stopped on a highway while traveling through on an empty highway. And the officer wrote on the report that I was holding up traffic when no cars were visible from my video on the road. The department destroyed their body cam and there was no dash cam. The court clerks hang up on me when I call and I had to pay for subscription to the court website while filing my motions. I'm kept out of the dark and no one will speak to me until I appear for trial. This whole ordeal gives me creepy vibes and I want to move away back up North when this is over.