harrassment dismissal

[Anonymous <no_email@fake.address>]

I worked for Sears for 21 years. For the last 3 and ahalf years my life 
was turned into a living hell because of a new supervisor that didn't believe 
that if you had children you should be working. My husband was staying home 
to care for our son when I became pregnant with our daughter. This supervisor did 
everything he could to get me to quit. After three years of requesting a trtansfer 
out of his division.( I even offered to take a cut in pay to get away from him). 
I had finally reached my limit. I had suffered from terrible headaches for two 
years been sick almost constantly from tension. I told my personell director 
that if he didn't do something I was going to file a formal complaint. Within 
in two weeks I was being reprimanded for everything you could imagine. I had never 
recieved a reprimand for anything in 21 years with the company. I was living the 
nightmare I had tried to avoid by not filing a formal complaint.Now I am out of 
the job that I enjoyed and was good at. I am working two jobs and still am not 
able to make ends meet just because I finally stood up to this man. Now I find 
out that he has been fired. I feel betrayed. If they had fired him a year earlier 
I would still have my job and would not be drowning in debt.I have filed a complaint 
with the eeoc but I don't know what they will do for me if anything. I know I could not 
have lived much longer under the circumstances I was being put through but I feel 
sometimes I did myself more harm than good. Now I have no health insurance and I am in 
constant fear that one of my kids will get sick. Sears has made a habit of discrimination 
for all the years I worked there and I am sure long before I came. They are so obvious 
about it I cannot understand why they are never punished for what they do. There 
"glass ceiling" isn't even clear its more like frosted. They took several positions 
that were held by men as managers and when the men retired or were promoted they put 
women in the same positions renamed the position cut the salary from 45 or 50 thousand 
a year down to 6 0r 7 dollars an hour. But because they did this they are able to say 
they have women in management positions. I believe the only way women will ever recieve 
equality in this country is when they finally realize that we must ban together with 
minorities to stand up to the people that treat us all like just so much garbage.
This same supervisorthat finally got me fired also had fired a vietnamese man and 
a black man. Its hard to believe that out of 35 people under this man most of which 
were white men the only people that he fired in 3 years were the two minorities and 
a women. I overheard a conversation between two of the supervisors at Sears 
complaining about how many "n-ggers" had come to our unit. My supervisor remarked 
to him that he was getting rid of them one at a time. Now I am stuck with nothing 
I don't know if the eeoc will do anything for me or if they are ever going to make 
a ruling waiting is the hardest thing. I wish I knew more about the process and what 
if anything they are doing. In the mean time I find that I am torn between depression 
and anger. I think the anger is better but I can see why people get violent sometimes 
and although I never would I have a lot more sympathy for those who do now. Sears has 
had so many problems in recent years trying to rip customers off you would think 
they would treat there employees better. I did contact there internal complaint 
people once but they never responded after the initial contact. I believe now that 
I probably should have gone directly to the eeoc. I would have still lost my job 
I am sure but at least I would have gotten the whole thing started earlier. Anyone 
who has to go through this should know its an extremly depressing thing to do.