Summit maybe not such a great company.

[tc1959]

Mike Dunasky
4 hrs
Gather round friends and let me tell you a tale of our wonderful corporate America and the wonderful “right to work “ policy here In Ohio.
As you may recall bac...k at the end of May (on May 24th, the Friday before Memorial Day, to be exact), I had gamma knife brain surgery and my chemo treatments, requiring a 4-5 day hospital admission each cycle, were about to start one week after.
On Tuesday May 28th, the first business day after Memorial Day, I missed a call from Tim Hesketh in Summit Racing’s HR department at 3:29 pm, wanting me to call him back. At 3:30 pm he called Barb and told her that they had received a note from my neuro-oncologist that said I would need to be off of work until at least January because of my treatment plan. Tim told Barb that Summit would not be able to hold my spot within the company for that length of time and that I was terminated immediately. No severance pay, no more insurance as of 6/1 (my insurance covered all of us), no benefits, nothing.
23 years with a company. Cut off completely.
With treatments starting in just a week, Barb and I thought that Summit Racing had just killed me. For that one week I was scared, panicked, feelings bombarded me and I NEVER want to ever feel that way ever again. Sheer terror.
Because of Summit Racing, I was forced to sell my beloved car, motorcycle, and guitars.
I will never be able to forgive such heartless actions from people I had worked with for 23 years.
I do feel sorry for the employees who don’t realize that they mean nothing to the company.
And before everyone starts yelling to seek legal assistance, we have and because Ohio is a right to work, I have no case. Nice, right?

 

[CDUNIGAN1981]

Mike Dunasky
4 hrs
Gather round friends and let me tell you a tale of our wonderful corporate America and the wonderful “right to work “ policy here In Ohio.
As you may recall bac...k at the end of May (on May 24th, the Friday before Memorial Day, to be exact), I had gamma knife brain surgery and my chemo treatments, requiring a 4-5 day hospital admission each cycle, were about to start one week after.
On Tuesday May 28th, the first business day after Memorial Day, I missed a call from Tim Hesketh in Summit Racing’s HR department at 3:29 pm, wanting me to call him back. At 3:30 pm he called Barb and told her that they had received a note from my neuro-oncologist that said I would need to be off of work until at least January because of my treatment plan. Tim told Barb that Summit would not be able to hold my spot within the company for that length of time and that I was terminated immediately. No severance pay, no more insurance as of 6/1 (my insurance covered all of us), no benefits, nothing.
23 years with a company. Cut off completely.
With treatments starting in just a week, Barb and I thought that Summit Racing had just killed me. For that one week I was scared, panicked, feelings bombarded me and I NEVER want to ever feel that way ever again. Sheer terror.
Because of Summit Racing, I was forced to sell my beloved car, motorcycle, and guitars.
I will never be able to forgive such heartless actions from people I had worked with for 23 years.
I do feel sorry for the employees who don’t realize that they mean nothing to the company.
And before everyone starts yelling to seek legal assistance, we have and because Ohio is a right to work, I have no case. Nice, right?

No FMLA protections?

 

[mikester]

No FMLA protections?

This ^^^^^^^^^ ! The FMLA is a FEDERAL law ! Pretty sure Summit would be in deep crap because they violated it. I would find out about that right away.

 

[-83MONTESS-]

I smell bullsh*t. There's definitely more to the story here.

 

[melloelky]

Whatever this is,it's a bad bedtime story.

 

[tc1959]

Arizona is a Right to work state. We basically have no real rights here either. Getting unemployment is next to impossible. They can say one bad thing about you and they can deny your claim. They do have to offer you COBRA insurance rights but that's about it. It's can be pretty shitty. Back in 2004 I lost everything because I had a hip replaced and it failed. After 3 months I was fired lost my insurance ( Small employers with under 50 employees, don't fall under the COBRA laws). I lost my truck, my jet ski's, my boat, all of our furniture and finally our house. Sara and got separated and she moved back to Montana. I wound up sleeping in my car for awhile. I stayed with my brother for 3 years while I fought with Social Security for my disability award. They automatically deny your claim and two more appeals. You have to hire a special lawyer to go to Federal Court . Luckily I had paid into the system for 30 years and I won the award. Sara and I finally got back together in 2007 and rented a small house. I was able to buy back my El Camino from my Dad for a dollar. I sold it to him so they couldn't sell it when we filed for bankruptcy. We saved up some cash and bought a REPO house in 2009. It was a tough 5 years I wouldn't wish on anyone. I hope things work out for this guy He is on G-Body Facebook Group and posted his story today.

 

[fleming442]

Oh, thought it was you....
Yep, big corporations are heartless. They try to act family friendly and whatnot, but in the end, you're just a number.
FMLA only holds your position for 12 weeks- not paid, under the law; your employer decides if they pay you. My employer uses FMLA as their sick policy, basically. I'm very familiar with the situation.

 

[CDUNIGAN1981]

Yeah. I thought the same thing at first but realized that if he worked for Summit we would have heard about it along time ago with all of the threads about Summit and Jegs

Bet we hear all about the old workplace now

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[TURNA]

So u worked for Summit and no one here got discounts?

Thats the real crime!!!







🤪

 

[Doug Chahoy]

Home Depot is just as heartless. My son in law got hurt on the job. As soon as the comp doctor released him to return to work, Depot canned him.