So I've bit my tongue long enough. But after being harassed from employees from this business now 7 months later after working there, I'm not staying quiet anymore. Double checked with my lawyer if I'm legally allowed to say what I'm about to say without worry of getting in trouble because all I'm doing is sharing experiences I've personally dealt with.. and I have proof of almost everything I'm about to say, so here it goes. I worked here almost a year ago for about two months. Things were fine at first and it seemed like a great job and a great career. It slowly but surely started turning into being treated to and talked to like crap. It went beyond normal hazing of "the new guy" to where I was talked down to on a regular basis, borderline threatened by my boss/ the warehouse manager, all because I burped within 5 feet of him, even turned my head and leaned out of office to blow it out the opposite way and still got cussed out and told if I did that again there was gonna be a problem, and was told "don't argue with me or say the opposite of what I'm saying" when I was trying to explain that I burped OUT of the room, also even was even forced to go get my DOT license and pay out of pocket without insurance for an eye doctor appointment and eye glasses and the exam (almost $500 in total) without reimbursement, Anyways there was another issue where two other associates got on me one day with a MASSIVE attitude for no reason, because I was doing what my boss told me to, and what my driver said was okay, but these other two associates weren't aware of, so they began to talk to me like a piece of trash and rip me a new one disrespectfully for no reason. So I got pissed. And stood at a desk for ALMOST 10 minutes, to calm myself down so I didn't snap at them and cuss them out, and then stepped outside for a smoke real quick. This turned into them running to the boss and immensely over exaggerating the situation to try to get me in trouble, and of course since it's a family owned business, and they're immediately gonna believe the people who have been there for years, without hearing the other persons side and just play favorites. So they fired me without even giving me a chance to give my side. I then told a friend of mine a bunch of incidents that I dealt with there, and after finding out that they've treated other previous employees like this in the past, my friend told me I should publicly expose the business because they needed to learn they can't treat people like that and get away with it. I told him I didn't want to publicly expose them because there was still a few people that worked there that I had no problem with and respected. So my friend went out of his way and posted a review himself, sharing some cases that I told him about. One of the sales person there, who is actually an admin of one of the bigger local Facebook pages, began messaging and harassing me about the review. Talking trash to me and calling me names and saying she knows it was me and saying I should have been fired long ago. I then called the store and spoke to their HR manager, relaying to her that one of her sales associates was harassing me about a yelp review that I didn't even make, which I pointed out "we both know is illegal", almost instantly the sales associate tried to delete her messages and blocked me on Facebook, and I told the HR manager I'd try to get my friend to take the review down. And she STRONGLY urged me to have him take it down. Now within the past 7 months since this happened, there's been a few incidents that have also happened. A few that I have proof of, and a few that I don't. Some of it being that my own personal number and my Facebook was given out to strangers by employees that work at Tops, and I was texted and harassed or messaged on Facebook or comments on posts by these strangers about the Yelp review from my friend and saying that I'm pathetic that I made a fake profile to make a review when it wasn't even me who made the review. The few incidents that happened that I DON'T have proof of, is on a few occasions I've driven by employees that work at Tops, and I've been flipped off or sworn at or called names, and then even one time was driving by their delivery truck near Milan, and they know my car, so they swerved towards my car as they're driving by me as to joke about threatening to hit me with their truck. Again didn't report those issues because I didn't have proof because I didn't have my dash cam set up. And now just a handful of days ago, I have the same sales associate that was harassing me about the original Yelp review, still publicly slandering me and making false accusations about me on Facebook saying I'm running fake profiles and stuff, and giving out private information about me like where I work. It is absolutely ridiculous and disgusting that 7 MONTHS later and I'm still being harassed by people from this business. read more