For those that saw the post, my apologies. I am not normally vindictive as most of you know. I wish my former employer the best, and hope he dies of a short yet very painful disease.

Dave

It's next to impossible to guess what the owner has/had in mind, but on a wild guess, I'd say he suspects you stole money, or has been unhappy with your work for some time. But he can't prove anything specific. So he made up a bunch of stuff to (look like) he is justified in terminating you. Again I'm guessing, but I suspect this has been in the works for some time. I doubt very much that the notes from the new hire alone did it.

Many laywers will give you a short, simple consultation if you'd like to pursue it. It's bad enough being let go, but to be called a drunk and a stoner is really bad.

Don't sue unless he starts slandering you to other people.

I suspect that you will find better employment at twice the compensation very soon. I'm sure there are many temperary jobs related to the Olympics.

Take a break, gather your thoughts and deceide what you want to do with your life.

You sound like a bright person so don't let them drag you down to their level.

Ian's advice is perfect. Listen to him. Put this behind you and move on.

Your film-tech family is rooting for you.

In any case, I have wrote in other threads some of the crap this company/management pulled...and their attitude to their "valued" employees.

Anyhow, they falsly accused me of damaging their equipment and fired me, and tried to hind behind AZ being a right to work state and all the crap that entails.

So what did I do? Applied for temp. unemployment whil I looked for a new job. Anyhow, in order to qualify for unemployment the State had to do an investigation regarding the circumstances of my discharge. The State found in my favour, and I have a nice letter exonerating me of any wrong doing !

-a long term, trusted employee.
-in good standing (no previous warnings).
-supported well by co-workers
(Red Flag here, usually when someone is let go that
deserves it, most co-workers will say "It was about time",
NOT resign en masse.)

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I would find that out ASAP.

I also regret that Dave had the experience of being fired; from his posts here he seems to be a good person.

I have edited my earlier message to be much shorter but has the same feeling and intensity.

Dave

PS.... mark, good idea, I already am scripting the whole episode into a film, but it ends differenltly with me as a secret agent protecting the world against bad theater owners.

Dave

Brad, Sorry about trying to cotinut this in the wrong forum, ya know we're at almost 5 thousand feet here and I rarely come down to "Ground Level".

Dave, Lets meet over at Brewvies and down a few Wasatch's. Dave and Matt that run brewvies are real nice guys, I should introduce you to them. They're still bugging me about doing a dual projecytor 3D show, and now whant to do 70mm film fest too. They might need your help to pull that off. Going there sure beats going to the Tower when it comes to the artsy stuff. The food over there is also real good!
Mark @ GTS

Brad, I am having trouble with my email for some reason, my computer is acting up. If you read this, can you delete or edit the posts from film handlers forum so that it is either gone or at least reads how I edited this one. That would be great.

You know, the one thing that always got to me, was the company policy that said and I quote "...any missing ticket stubs will be considered a cash shortage and will be dealt with accordingly."

Now can anyone tell me how a missing ticket STUB is a cash shortage?

I NEVER enforced it. I just couldn't see how a STUB not there is a cash shortage. The owner explained it as a way to stop box office people from selling ticket stubs. Well thats all fine and dandy, but it doesnt take into account the people that buy too many tickets or buy too early and cant make it, and then never come back to get a refund or try to get a refund.