This is LONG so if you want read it all go for it. If not, extremely short summary at the end.

I'm a 35M and have worked for this company for 14 years was going into 15th (starred when I was 19).

So I recently lost my job 2 months ago. I though I had handled the situation that I found myself in correctly with a female at work. This situation occurred at a site that wasn't my home site but was the females home site.

Come to find out 2 days ago after going through mediation in an attempt to get my job back; it was discovered that the reason I thought I got fired for was NOT the reason I got fired for. The female claimed that I made sexual comments, comments about her looks, and grab her. She claimed that the sexual comments and the grab happened at the same time and the comment about her looks was at a different time. What she failed to realize that the time these incidents occurred there were witnesses.

Now this is where it gets really fucked up. The comments about her looks. I did not say but I was present at the moment. I told the investigative team the name of the person that made the comment but I was accused of protecting that person that made the comment and continually harassed and accused for making the comment. And called a horrible team lead becuase I didn't know what the intent was behind the comment or why the comment needed to be said. Yet remember I wasn't the one who said the comment.

The grab & sexual comments that she said that I supposedly did was in an area where there's video cameras and also witnesses.

The investigation team pressued me and continually accused me of doing the grab and comment. The investigation teamed threatened me w/ the ability to pull video footage & audio recordings. I told them to do it woth no hesitation because my home site has a camera ever 6 feet and nothing is missed and I knew 100% I didn't not do what this girl claimed. I even offered to walk the investigation team through everything step by step what had occurred in the work area around the piece of equipment the female claimed the incident took place at as the site I was being question at had the same piece of equipment and same set up, becuase they were having difficulty understanding what occured. I offered it 5 times and was denied every single time.

For 3 hours I was called a liar & accused of doing what this female claimed. I gave a 4 pg statement (written of course), was suspended, then 2 week later was fired.

Fast forward 2 months - going the the EDR (employee dispute resolution) process - I get to mediation (which was 2 days ago) because I was denied every step of the process and was left with 2 sets - mediation & arbitration.

During the mediation I get sent back my own statement that I had written 2 months ago. I am told to read my statement during and as I'm reading my statement, I start getting asked questions. Every time I'm asked a question I respond to back that yhe answer is the next sentence, or the next line down, or the next 2 or 3 lines down. And as I continue reading my statement and I keep getting asked questions. I realized they never read my statement. They took the female's words over mine. When they brought up that they had multiple statements. All they talked about was the female's statement. The only time another statement was brought up was when the comment about her looks were mention but all the other statement said that they heard the comment but no name was given.

Strike 1.

So then as I continue to read my statement. And I come up to the portion where I thought I did something wrong and corrected is why I was getting fired actually turned out to not be the reason while I was getting fired. This portion was where I was accused to have grabbed her by the hips and made the sexual comments. I asked during the mediation did their investigation team tell them that offered multiple times in the site that they were questioning me at to show them what happened around the piece of equipment the said accusations occurred around. The response was 'no'. Then I asked what is this girl's definition of a 'grabbed'. They respond to back, they don't know what the girl's definition of a grab was. They just saw grabbed in her statement and assumed it was both hands.

Strike 2 & 3.

When the camera footage a brought up and they told me the investigation team was going to pull video footage. I followup with what did the footage show they delfected to the comments about her looks and asked me what was the intent behind the comment about her looks and I responded back to them again. I was not the one that made the comment. I don't know the intent behind the comment and you need to talk to the person that I named in my statement & told your investigation team even though they accused me of lying and protecting that person what the intent was. They responded back to me that they did talk to that person and when I asked what was it, they back tracked and said we we have a statement that says it was said.

Strike 4 & 5.

Let's just say the tone went from 'we're never gonna give your job back' to 'we are very flexible'.

So I decided to not take my job back and have them change my status from terminated to resign and I told them in a very polite & professional way they can go fuck themselves. Because in my the last 5 years with the company. I've had dealt with so lies told about me than any other time in the last 15 years total I have worked for them, and there was no guarantee that they would not do this again in the future.

So it was discovered that I was fired wrongfully based off of lies by the female & investigation team.

Short version: Got fired from job worked at for 15 years by claims made by female. Ended up finding out 2 months later female made false claims & investigation team also lied.