I write this review in hopes it will open the eyes to those higher up a little more and provide honest feedback for those applying. Let me start by saying that this job started out as a dream job, with so much positivity in the workplace. However, over time I was able to see a culture that I believe should not have been tolerated in a great company. I would like to focus on one of those challenges and that is bullying.
I experienced workplace retaliation and was fired after I submitted a complaint to Management and Human Resources about an employee for Verbal Harassment and bullying towards myself as well as others within the company. The complaint also involved a form of racism and religious bias that was presented by the aggressor towards me. The workplace retaliation started right after the complaint was submitted to my supervisor and HR. The response that I received was “this person isn’t going anywhere, so do you still want to be here?”
I tried to speak the truth or prove my case and I was silenced. I brought this up to someone higher up of the company who acknowledged the behavior of the person who was doing the bullying and they knew of their behavior not only from the current situation but their previous job. However, they were not willing to take the matter seriously. Instead, it only got worse for me. I now understand why so many employees throughout the company did not feel comfortable going to HR with their concerns. I was not the first person to have experienced this bullying from the same person. And it was well known of the behavior from the person doing the bullying. However, I was the first person to go through the right channels and file a formal complaint.
The retaliation that I experienced follows textbook guidelines of a complete reversal of the treatment that I endured before and after the complaint. Per Utah code 34A-6-203, Walker Edison seemed to violate Utah law both for discharging and firing me based on filing a complaint about workplace Harassment. How Human Resources handled this was highly unethical. Hopefully, those at the top can straighten this out and prevent it from happening to any other employee.
