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Is the case too simplistic?

Will delete post afterwards because I'm just ruminating.

My case is in investigation phase but I've been thinking about it for the past few months and haven't added any new evidence because it's so cut and dry. It's just about me getting fired for going to the restroom. Although what makes it not simple is possibly my visible accent (actually speech impediment) that has implied to my coworkers, managers, and HR that I might be 'from another country' (I never left the US, born here) because I was never given a good reason as to why I was getting monitored more closely than other employees. Added too, that whenever I want to see HR, my manager takes me to another room and interrogate me before I get to see HR.

It's pretty humiliating. I'm not sure what else to add to the portal. I had alarm bells ringing off in my head about the restroom thing so I've been tracking all the times that I left my station, but that's all the evidence I have. My employer is trying hard to get the EEOC to believe that I wander off a lot.

I don't want to bother my investigator. I don't know how complicated or simple the problem is. I just read a lot of people's posts on here about having paperwork, emails and continued correspondence with HR and various bodies and I'm over here like, the managers don't even treat me like a normal worker. They're not even willing to talk to me like one.

There have been other minorities who've gone to the EEOC about my workplace but I'm the only person who probably sense something off with the restroom break ordeal and started documenting my times.

The short version of this story: got fired for going to the restroom. It's EEOC related but I don't have a lot of paperwork because I think it's too simple, but I'm worried I need more emails or letters or something.

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u/throwaway_41231 — 5 days ago