If you all think that my accusation titled Workplace Harassment is outrageous this one is the mother of all crazy. The following accusation is the cruelest and most senseless inhumane treatment that I have ever experienced at the hands of coworkers on a job site. It occurred at an ADT Security Services, Inc at 8807 Roberts Drive, Suite 150, Atlanta GA, 30350. I’m just letting people know. I would not just make this up either, I have no reason to.

I used to work for Adecco Temporary Agency, which was located at 100 Galleria Parkway, Atlanta GA. As I had done for years I called Adecco to inform them that I was available for work. I was sent out on a temporary assignment as a receptionist at ADT. Shortly after working there I noticed that some of the employees acted a bit odd but to each its own.

I remember sitting in the break room one day and one of the older employees walked in. I can’t remember his name (I think that it was Woodard), he retired shortly after I arrived. You know how you can tell when a person is just stalling around trying to hit on a conversation to get you to talk. So finally he mentioned something on the television and that got it started. Then the conversation abruptly went to racism. He said that “You know, me and my family have never been prejudice”. I’m thinking where did that statement come from?

I didn’t even know him or his family and really I didn’t care, and what does that have to do with me just out of the blue like that. So I told him that even though I was raised in a totally black neighbor hood and had gone to integrated schools I couldn’t recall an incident where I was subjected to harsh racism, or at least if I was I didn’t know it.

I explained to him that one reason was because we rarely had to go outside of our close neighborhood for anything. We had stores, movie theatre, church, schools, doctors, pharmacist, etc, and all of the blacks pretty much shopped at the same places, so I didn’t run into a lot of racism. I don’t recall any obvious racism even after I enrolled in an integrated school. I hope that my response helped him a little because he was beginning to make me think that he had some racist in his family at some point and he was just trying to clear their name.

Then he told me a strange story about a friend of his. I’m thinking why is he telling me all of this stuff, I just wanted to eat lunch and relax for a while. He said that his friend was in a airplane when he looked out of the window and saw two men on a cloud fighting with swords and one man plunged his sword into the side of the other one. When he finished he asked me “Do you believe that” and I said “No”. He came across like he had believed him wholeheartedly but I didn’t. I probably wouldn’t have told him that I didn’t if he had not asked me. I probably would have just listened and not say anything since it was his friend and he believed him. I just kind of think that given the right flight, altitude and the consumption of liquor can make you see a lot of strange things.

Soon afterwards, I received this religious email in the email address that had been set up for me through the company. The email was titled “You Can’t Touch This!”. The sender was Tracy Stodghill and it was also addressed to other office personnel Danielle Spivey, Lee Dease, Larry Graves, Patricia Lewis, Emily Porter and Shauna Sparman.

This is the content:
Good Morning,
 On this day, August 20, this email comes to minister to you. T.G.IF. How are you doing this morning? It’s a wonderful day to be a child of God. Have you often felt as thought everyone was out to destroy you? For some reason it appears as though everyone in your life has an alternate plan. Have you been kicked while you were already down? After receiving life-changing news (negative report), someone comes and throws another blow at you. Have you ever cried out for help and your peers begin to ignore or avoid you (Luke 10:31-33)? When everything was going well, everyone was there. Now that you are in serious need, the same people have exited the back door. Many times the plans we have for our life never unfold the way we want them to. The people you thought would always be there, are no longer around. The things you grew to depend upon are now vapor. Have you been there? Are you there now?

 This morning, I have been commissioned to come and minister to you. Life can be an interesting experience. People can love you today and hate you by tomorrow. Your finances can be awful today and overflowing tomorrow. I have learned that things can change, as well as people. As a child of God, you have the ability to tell the enemy You Cant Touch This! The Bible declares in Isaiah 54:17 – No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgement thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. The blessings God has for you cannot be withheld no matter what the enemy attempts to do. The only person, place or thing that can hinder you from receiving what God has for you, is….you! The Bible declares in Psalms 84:11 – For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. You Can’t Touch This!

 My brother, my sister, what are you going through today? What lie has the enemy spoken to you? What trap has he set against you? Tell that lying devil, You
Can’t Touch This! The Bible declares in Psalms 105:15 – Saying, touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. Beloved, there’s a new level God wants to take you. There are new diminishes God wants you to experience. Understand, the enemy will continue to attack you but you have the ability to rebuke and renounce his powers. The Bible declares in Matthew 16:19 – And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shalt be loosed in heaven. You Can’t Touch This! Dear friend, have you given up on life? Have you thrown in the towel? Is there anymore life in you? I encourage you to get up and fight back. Prayer for Today: Father, today I declare you are Lord of my life. Since I know this, I tell the devil he cannot touch me, my family or what’s mine, in Jesus’ name…Amen! Until Monday…
Scripture Reading for Today: Job 1

May God Bless you at Your point of need!

Minister Darrick D. McGhee.

Instead of feeling really religious, I felt insulted because I really didn’t know any of these people yet and none of them even considered coming to me to discuss what my religious preferences are or if I wanted to counsel with this minister at work. I do know that I would not have given him my email address at work for this use.

Moreover, I don’t feel that the workplace is the place for such discussions and meetings. I would have gladly meet with anyone of them after work including the minister if he wanted to talk religion, but I just try to avoid in-depth discussions at work. I wasn’t seeking this kind of social network.

I didn’t respond except for asking to be removed from any further correspondence of that nature. Of course they ignored my request and I continued to receive them. They didn’t even respect that. See that’s what turns so many people off about certain religious groups. They have no respect for your wishes.

After receiving that email I started to feel isolated and ostracized. Then some of the women in the office just started tripping, I mean really tripping out, to the point that I was questioning some of their sanity and gender preferences. For example, they had started walking past me with bibles, and would walk past me quoting bible verses and talking all out of their heads to themselves, especially this lady named Pat. Sometimes I just thought that she was hung-over from the night before because she looked like she had a drinking problem to me. That’s just how she looked maybe it was a medical problem instead.

At first, I assumed that they were talking to themselves because they would walk right past, they would not make eye contact or acknowledge me. But, they would begin their sentences with “you” in the manner that a person would if s/he were making a direct statement to someone in their presence. They didn’t stop by the desk either, they would just keep a steady stride looking straight ahead just like a person just passing through, but they weren’t, they were talking to somebody. Other times they would be just mumbling things that I couldn’t make out.

After this seemed to start becoming routine, I couldn’t help but to stop them a few times and ask them if they were talking to me. I mean, I didn’t want them to think that I was being rude or ignoring them. Most of all I was starting to feel kind of weird myself. Just imagine you are new to a job and the other employees just start to acting out like this without any explanation for it. If you already know that a person has issues or doesn’t like you for some reason it doesn’t affect your own psyche as bad. But its different when a person is acting psychotic but with a straight face and expects for you to perceive them as normal. It was messing with me and I was feeling very uncomfortable.

When I did ask if the comments were meant for me I was they would always say no and just keep on walking. There were times when I wanted to ask them why in the hell then do you wait until you are passing right in front of my desk to start acting a like a damn fool. If you are not talking to me then shut the hell up or take some medication or something, get laid, but just take that to some where else. You know what I mean. Excuse my language but I’m not that fabulous that just because I walk into the room the other women just start menopausing all out of their damn minds. I’m not all that, I can’t drive people to that. So pretty much this was just their way of being cruel.

The reception area had to be covered at all times, even when I went to the restroom. So normally I had to call for someone to cover me until I got back. It got to the point where every time I went to the restroom Tracy or Renee would either be right ahead, right on my heals, or already in there. It’s not uncommon for people to meet in the restroom but there was rarely a day when one of these ladies was not there at the same time as me. I don’t know about you all but I thought it was strange. Most people don’t pee in unison the way that me, Tracy and Renee did. It was like we were on the same bladder release timer.

And then there was Jennifer the supervisor. She would come and stand to talk to me, I don’t mean to get vulgar but she would take her hand and scratch right next to her vagina, I mean right there, just to the side of it. After she did this several times I had to ask her if she was alright or was anything wrong because she kept coming in front of me doing this instead of going into any private area where she could to take care of that.

After these incidents I was kind of becoming confused about whether or not maybe one or all of them may have some hidden agenda like an attraction to other women. Don’t get me wrong but I didn’t know what to think because they had many opportunities to meet me or talk to me outside of the restroom. It just seemed to me like they were going out of their way to have these encounters. And after Jennifer started approaching me and almost scratching her vagina, I didn’t know if that was some type of undercover come-on move or what. The employment agency doesn’t give you an office profile so all I had to go on were the personality flaws that they were demonstrating and some of it made me wonder if they were interested in me in some other way.

Then one day this guy named Laird showed up in the lobby. My desk was in the lobby. I sat out there alone. He walked in with a ladder. He didn’t say anything and I didn’t say anything either because I didn’t know what was going on. He got up on the ladder and placed a camera in the light fixture. I didn’t know that it was a camera at the time, a camera was the last thing I was thinking about. I more or less just thought that he had done something to the light fixture.

A few days later one of the other employees came to me and asked me why had they put a camera in the lobby, she seemed really concerned and puzzled. I said what camera. She wanted to know why it was pointed at my desk. I told her that I didn’t know anything about it so I went to see.

The video was being displayed out in the hallway in the back offices. I didn’t understand that because nobody sat in the hallway to monitor it. Maybe it was being broadcast on another monitor as well. What puzzled me was why was it just aimed at the desk. If they were concerned about my safety you would think that it would have provided a wider view to show the entire lobby.

Then I started to notice that I wasn’t running into these women as much at the restroom but every time I went (I mean every time), there would be a man right ahead, right on my heals, or already in the men’s restroom. Sometimes they would come from inside of the ADT office, sometimes they would come from around the corner in the hallway, or out of another door in the hallway.

Someone had planted some kind transmitters in ladies restroom. I don’t think that they were there or at least they were not being used for the first couple of weeks after I arrived because I don’t recall hearing people talking in the restroom before then.

There was a transmitter in the overhead vent in the ceiling, one somewhere around the toilet bowl, one in the air freshener dispenser and around the sink, and they had one on the intercom box behind my desk (I used this box to view and talk to visitors outside of the office). While I was using the restroom I began to hear these voices, sometimes male and sometimes female or both.

Imagine this, you are in the stall with you underwear down and a man starts talking to you from out of nowhere. They would say things like “Whore”, “You’re a Whore”, “Read the bible”. “Come to Jesus”, “Come to Jesus Whore“, I know it hurts”. “Pray” “You’re going to hell”, “Come home”, and other insults. It was very violating and very disturbing.

Worst of all is that after I had used the restroom and proceeded to wipe my private area one of the women would enter the restroom at that exact moment. More strange is if there was a man in the men’s restroom he would start making loud banging and hitting on something, it sounded like he was a in the stall maybe kicking or banging on something.

You may not believe me, but this really happened and at the exact moment that I would wipe, and at no other time. At first I didn’t really notice that it occurred when I wiped. At first I just noticed that someone would be there every time I went to the restroom (normally the same women) or someone would begin banging in the men’s restroom. And that is what led to me noticing that it occurred at a particular time. It happened every time, every day. It took me a while to catch on that all of this was happening because of me using the restroom.

Another way I knew that there was a camera in there is because the voices followed me from place to place. If I was in the stall it was there and if I was at the sink area it was there.

And when I would return back to my desk and sit down, immediately there would be people outside of the door laughing and one of them would be saying very meanly “Cry”, I know you want to cry”, “Whore”, “Read the Bible”, “ I know that hurt” and then they would burst out laughing. If they were not outside of the lobby door then they would be in a back hallway.

The layout of the front entrance of the office was as follows. When you entered the building you veer left to enter the front double doors into the lobby. Directly across from the entrance doors was my desk. Across from my desk on the left side of the lobby was a door that led to another small open area. To the left of that area led to the back offices and straight across that area was a locked door which led out to the restrooms and a hallway that led back to the main entrance. To the left of me and behind me was a hallway leading to the back offices.

I only got up once to look to see who it was who was saying these things but by the time I reached the door they had disappeared. I didn’t run to catch them because I’m sure that video monitor in the hallway they could now see me coming. I could hear people scrambling as soon as I stood up from my chair.

I know for a fact that there was a camera in that restroom. I even mentioned to the office manager but she just kind of shrugged it off.

Then they would have these employee meetings at least one time a week but usually more than that. All of these men would show up. They were mostly technicians or security system installers. They would sit in there and talk loud and curse and some of their conversations would rattle me a little. They would be so loud in the conference room that I would have to get up and close the door. They would get up and reopen it as if they wanted to be heard.

The noise was so loud that it would drown out the other party on the other end of the telephone making it difficult for me to hold a conversation. What was really upsetting is that they would talk about things that were disturbing for a woman. I would overhear them referring to women as “Whore”, “Slut” and they would talk about a woman being raped but I’m telling you they’re tone was not that of concerned security personnel who were concerned about the well being of a female or a customer it was more a humorous, picking or sarcastic tone. Like the person deserved it. It was very uncomfortable for me because they expected for me to sit there and hear this. I’m a woman, what woman would not be uncomfortable?

It was very strange because there would sometimes be one person who would be conducting the meeting and giving a lecture and then this other person in the background would be talking at the same time and interjecting insulting words like “”Whore” or making fowl kind of comments. It was really strange and they just carried on like they didn’t hear this person.

I remember that at one of their meetings this guy Scott was in the meeting and he kept calling “Sonja”. This was one of those meetings where they were just randomly blurting out all of this crazy random words and phrases. I was listening to all of this and he was just calling “Sonja” but he wasn’t talking about this Sonja as a part of the conversation and he wasn’t using the name in a sentence. He just kept saying the name randomly. Eventually I called out to him and asked him whether or not he was trying to get my attention because I was the only Sonja that I knew of who worked in that office. I think that it surprised him that I said something and he said “Oh no, I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about another Sonja that works here”. I just took his word because I had not met everyone who worked there. I still was confused as to why he was just sitting there saying Sonja and not making any complete sentences. I really think that he was trying to play me. Who knows.

They continued on and they just seemed to get worse in those meetings. I kind of felt that it was useless to mention it to the office manger because when I mention to her what I felt was going on in the restroom and she brushed it off and didn’t show any concern so I just felt that she would do the same with this.

I did however complain to the representative at Adecco and nothing happened on that end either.

I was beginning to feel so bad because visitors would come into the office and would ask me for directions to the restroom. I didn’t know what to say to them. Should I tell them what I know or should I just let them go in there? Will they just think that I am crazy and delusional? Will I get fired? Should I tell them so that they will complain and maybe the manager will take them seriously. I had already asked Adecco to find me another assignment because my complaints were going ignored and I was on the verge of walking out.

One day it was just like nonstop. There had been a horrible meeting with all of the degrading remarks being thrown out. The toilet was talking, the air freshener dispenser was talking, the sink was talking, the intercom box was talking, and the office nuts were on the prowl talking all out of their heads. They were really putting it on thick.

This lady came into the office to visit someone, she had a little child with her between 3 and 5 years. They asked for directions to the restroom and my heart just sank. That little kid was standing there and looking at me looking at me just as innocent as could be without a clue as to how low people will stoop to be cruel. They look up to adults for protection and I just couldn’t stand the thought that the mother might unknowingly go into that restroom and some freak might be watching them. I didn’t tell them not to go. I know that if the mother would have known what I knew she wouldn’t have gone in there. And, if she knew today she would have that place torn apart. I’m sure that anybody who came in there and went into that restroom would, if they knew. But in all honesty I doubt if they would have believed me.

But, I did call the local police and told them what I knew. I called the police station and 911. I even went in person into the police station and told them.

I don’t think that they did anything. They probably didn’t know what to do or have the resources needed to do anything. But I just wouldn’t have been able to rest if I had not said anything to the authorities because this was just wrong and somebody in that office was getting away with spying on the women’s restroom.

There is no job worth going along with the things that they were doing in that office. I would never participate in something like that to try and cause that type of mental and emotional distress on another person for any reason. It just goes to show you how sick a gang of weak-minded people can become and the things that they will resort to for acceptance. However, acceptance wasn’t the case here tough, I just think that they were trying to use humiliation and degradation to manipulate and extort me because I refused to participate in their religious activities at work. Jim Jones almost got his entire clan to drink cyanide after he isolated them mentally and physically to that jungle.

I know for sure that the police did not conduct a search. I don’t believe that the office manager passed along my complaint to upper management. I don’t believe that the police department returned at a later date to follow up or make a search. They just didn’t take it seriously and did nothing. I hope that they rethink it because all they did was allow somebody to get away with an awful act and now this person may wind up anywhere doing this to other people.

Usually a peeping tom will try to conceal what he is doing but these people were unusually cruel and made if very clear to me that we are invading my privacy in the most private place. They wanted me to know and they wanted me to feel all of the emotions associated with knowing that. Obviously they felt untouchable, and that no one would ever believe me over them. It seems like they were right.

I don’t know who that person was who was telling me to cry and asking if I was hurt but she should have known the answer to that. Of course I was hurt who wouldn’t be. And if the police had taken me seriously and found that camera she and everyone involved at that office would be crying and hurting too because not only would they have need to be fired they would have been prosecuted as well.

How could they be doing all of this stuff that I just describe and at the same time using the bible and religion. There was nothing spiritual or supernatural about what they were doing. Its just plain wrong and none of them should be working for a security company.

It only takes basic equipment and a little money to create what I have described and they had an advantage on me and the police because they deal in this type of equipment. They are a surveillance retailer.

We have to trust the people who work for ADT almost as much as a family member. We allow them into our homes, businesses, schools, fitness centers, etc. If they would do this to me who knows where else they would place a camera or where they already have.

I would like to know why was my complaint not taken as seriously as any other complaint.
 I felt really let down by Adecco because I had worked for them for many years and up until the ADT assignment we had had a productive and profitable relationship between us. Even though I did get another assignment at Humana One up at Perimeter after I left ADT, which had the same type of hostile environment with the restrooms and in the conference rooms, and the women acting like maniacs, I have not received another assignment from them sense.
 Secondly, I feel let down by the police department because they know that they don’t get a call like that everyday and someone should have at least taken a look around and filled out a report, especially after I went to the expense of actually going into the precinct just to let them know that I was for real. I would not make something like that up and I am clearly not delusional. They made me feel as though I wasn’t important enough.
 Thirdly, I feel that ADT is fully responsible because in order for me to work there in the first place, someone had to place an order for a receptionist with Adecco. If I wasn’t performing to their standards or if they didn’t like me because of religious reasons or if they just didn’t like me period, all they had to do was call Adecco and cancel the assignment. It happens all of the time and the temporary worker just doesn’t report to their office anymore, it’s just as simple as that. Believe me I was performing well and highly qualified and I did meet a few people outside of this group who behaved normally and we got along well, I believe that all of the regular delivery men liked me. The client has the power to end the assignment at any time and that’s all they had to do. But the fact that they asked for help from an agency worker and then got me over there and treated me like that is what is so senseless about the cruelty. I would never have gone there otherwise. They could have just let me leave before it got to that point. I didn’t even know these people, still don’t know them and I have never even seen them again. They are probably just still carrying on and getting a kick out of it like what they did to me is ok. The only good it did for them was to feed that evil inside of them.
 I feel like this should be handled like any other random hate crime. It may not be a hate crime in terms of the law, but I feel like that’s exactly what happened to me.

My soul doesn’t need saving but theirs do.