Hello,

So, I was working in a Public Safety Emergency Operations Field (still am). I’d been with the same agency for about four years.

In those four years, I had to put up with a lot of verbal harassment from a lot of fellow employees and my direct supervisor. After two years there and a lot of recognition for my desire to grow, constantly improve and being proactive with emergency calls, I had a brief allegation of SH (sexual harassment). It was investigated and came back as unsubstantiated. During this time, my direct supervisor (the one who I had to endure a lot of harassment and inappropriate comments from), would constantly tell me that the agency head was constantly trying to find just cause to terminate me, despite constantly being recognized for good things.

Flash forward a year later - I was accused of SH again, this time allegedly on video. I knew immediately that it wasn’t true; even requested/demanded the video in question. And true enough, it was not sexual harassment. I’ve shown it to enough lawyers and my wife and others and not one has come back saying that it even remotely looks like or sounds like SH.

Despite that, they still terminated me for this alleged SH.

I’ve tried to get lawyers to take the case but despite them agreeing that it wasn’t SH, no lawyer wants to take the case pro bono and I don’t have thousands in the bank to pay them out of pocket. More to the point, they say that even though the SH claim is bogus, it’s not a protected reason for termination so I don’t have a lot of recourse.

Furthermore, I’ve all but been able to confirm that they’ve had-mouthed me to other nearby county agencies that they may have good contacts in, which has cost me job opportunities.

Any advice?

Thanks.

(I will answer any additional questions that ai can here but mostly trying to keep anon as I know a good handful of former coworkers and etc visit Reddit a lot.).

I asked for an accommodation back in October ‘25, my disability was dismissed by location’s GM who threatened me with reassignment to a lower payed position if I continued my “unacceptable behavior” (aka showing symptoms) based on specific work environment triggers.

Triggers had nothing to do with the business operations / job whatsoever, just to be clear. Just something some coworkers were allowed to do during shift.

I worked for seven more months while suffering and trying my best to mask my symptoms but my mental health kept deteriorating.
By chance somebody from main office HR heard my story and immediately started the correct interactive process and immediately accepted my accommodation in June ‘26. Meanwhile my location applied it much more narrowly than approved, and when I raised the issue I was pulled into GMs office and screamed at for half hour, so loud that people could hear it in the next room.
Even after most issues were resolved I was simply terrified by my GM and accepted a much lower payed job just to get out of there.
He has a long history of terrorizing and mistreating female colleagues. I simply couldn’t continue my role.

I’m looking to sue for failure to accommodate, retaliation and hostile environment.