How to Document Your Case Against Your Bully Boss
These are the steps that you need to follow to properly construct a complaint.
When you file your complaint, remember that you can only complain for the last 360 days. Should your case be longer than that, you can still use it in the complaint, but you put in a section called :Historical Background" That way it still meets the criteria that you are only complaining about the last 360 days. but the facts of the case shows that it had been going on longer than the period of the complaint.
1. Keep a Diary of Your Events
Caution: Do not Keep this at your place of work or on your Work computer!!
The Reason is that if your employer found it, it becomes the property of the employer and you could face retaliation.
The diary establishes your timeline of the case. It needs to be precise. No "on or about" phrases in the timeline, since you are daily recording the events. Also remember, if these are not recorded the same day, memories tend to fade over time and your events may not be precise anymore.
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2. Build the Complaint
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3. Organize Your Exhibits
The organization of the exhibits must match the time line that was established in your diary. The first exhibit will ne known as "Exhibit A", the next exhibit will be known as "Exhibit B", as so forth. When you come across the 27th exhibit, it will be known as "Exhibit AA", the 28th Exhibit will be known as "Exhibit AB", and so forth. When you hit Exhibit AZ, then you go to Exhibit BA, all the way through until you have labeled all of your exhibits.
These will be referred to in the complaint by the Exhibit label that you put on the specific exhibit that you referring to. All exhibits will be in the Exhibits Section ogf the complaint
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4. Create an Outline of Your Complaint
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5. Build The Outline into a Draft Version of your Complaint
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6. Finally Take the Final Version Of the Complaint and Create an Executive Summary
This is an important step. It is this summary that will get you in the door with the civil rights agency's. You need to summarize your complaint into no more than 2 or 3 pages at the most. This is also a necessary step when filing your complaint online. .
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Proclamation
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