Speaking up at work should make things better, not put a target on someone’s back.

But when one warehouse employee reported dangerous conditions, their manager made it painfully clear who the company really wanted to protect.

So what started as a safety warning quickly turned into retaliation disguised as “teamwork.”

You’ll want to read on for this one.

Got written up for “attitude” after reporting safety violations

Reported that our warehouse doesn’t meet OSHA standards — broken equipment, blocked exits, the whole thing.

Told my manager it’s a liability.

He said he’d “look into it.”

But this manager didn’t look into it and instead did something much worse.

A week later I get called into his office.

Apparently I have an “attitude problem” and need to be a “team player.”

The write-up is in my file now.

Safety violations are still there.

Equipment still broken.

Now the employee is scared to take this legitimate issue any further.

But now if I say anything else, they can point to the write-up and say I’m just being difficult.

This is how they do it.

They make you the problem instead of fixing the actual problem.

Now I’m job hunting because I’m not risking my life so the company can save on maintenance.

This sounds like an awful place to work.

What did Reddit think?

OSHA was pretty much invented for this very purpose.

This situation is pretty much textbook retaliation.

Maybe this employee should have gone directly to the outside agency with this.

OSHA could potentially help protect this employee.

If a company would rather write someone up than fix a safety hazard, that’s all the proof needed about how little they value their workers.

They may have silenced the complaint, but they also pushed a good employee right out the door.

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