I was employed by a large corporation that makes roughly $600mill annually.
I was a full time employee (salary employee). First let me state that I've had constant problems with a co-worker who was almost my age and it was I think a dicrimination. The co-worker constantly would ignore me, make fun of my accent (English was not my frist language) and she'd also say something like "what would people in your country _______ (name of country removed)". Like she'd always pin point me and always remind me of my national background and make me feel insecure. At confereces she'd ask me out of blue to make a presentation and it would be first time I'd hear about it and she's say out loud in room "sorry everyone, it seems our co-worker_______(name removed) was not prepared". Like in that movie "indecent proposal with Dami Moore when she tried to make Michael Douglas look bad about the product line presentation).
I got to the point that it got out of hand. I had such horrible arguments with her on daily basis I had suffered severe migranes and was under a lot of stress. Going to work every day was like going on a death row. Every day as I was driving I was thinking "what would she do today?". At one time the argument with her got so bad she was screaming at me in conference room on top of her lungs. I rashed out in tears and went straight to my superior. I told him everything but I did not see any actions taken at all. So I decided to put everything in writing and went to my manager's superior who was almost like CFO of the corporation. He listened to me and after my writing, that co-worker was permanently terminated (reason unkown).
Same day when she was fired, my manager came to me and told me "don't you ever, ever go to my superior"..... I was puzzled. What was the big deal? If I don't see a problem being solved I was seeking higher power within that organization.
Well to get in revange with me, our department was disassambled. Like 3 people went into 1 department, 4 others went into another and I remained under the wing of my manager, even tho our fields of expertise didn't exactly relate to one another.
Time came to move to another building. The corp owns many buildings in town. So we moved to a building with a waterfront view and state of the art facility. Well guess what? Out of 30+ empty cubicals I was assigned to sit in a cubical between TWO toilets. I complained to my manager, at least I wanted to sit in mid row and he ignored me. Lights were broken in my cubical and my manager was every day absent and I could not contact him sometimes for weeks. I felt like 5th wheele in wagon when we moved. So I asked his superior the CFO if I could switch the cubical there were many to chose from and he said "sure". So my manager comes back from a meeting or lunch and storms into my cubical he had red face, angry steaming out of anger and says to me "I thought I've told you NOT to go to my superior". He calls me into his office.......I tell him I can't work under such conditions, he says "ok write a letter of resignation" - I said "I'll think about it", he said "No! You write it right now!" so in tears and being all upset he forces me to write a letter of resignation (he was standing next to me while I was writing it). He then says "pack up your things". In tears, walking to my cubical crying I pack up my stuff while being watch in silence by others.
The managers escorts me out of the building on an elevator and out of building's door. At that time I cry non stop. He walks me outside and closes a door and goes inside the building.
A week later I receive a check in the mail. The check was for large sum amount that I did NOT earn at all. I pretty much received that check for nothing. I called him and told him that the corp did not owe me that much money. His reply was "I want you to have it". I said ok. Being at the time 27-years-old I was naive and accepted the payment.
I did not complain nor contacted anyone in the corporation about my forced termination. Wondering was it legally done? Can a superior force an employee to write a resignation letter?
Also I was a very good employee and my work was praised by many people in different departments.

