Before I get off track let me get to the question first.
So, I am employed by a franchise owned by a family that I've worked with for 5 or so years. I am mostly alone when I work. In general, my current owner was very good at trusting me and letting me make decisions based on his management strategy and daily operations. It's a job that I am well suited for and have lots of experience doing. Up until about six months ago, I was working a normal week...five nights on two nights off, and feeling good about the positive impact on this business.
My owner does not live in the area where our business is. From the beginning of this position, we kept in touch when something needed to be done. Then something strange began happening. Most of the people that were here couldn't really get into personal touch with the owner. We could text him and sometimes he would get back to us. This is very unlike him. He's really good at dealing with our issues. We would soon start getting messages about the hotel being up for sale. No matter, in this business, this happens. Different ownership but the same franchise.
We all went back and forth about what was going on, but in my experience, these kinds of changes are brought about for various reasons.
So then, we heard that the business was sold. Done deal. In escrow...new owners coming in.
Here's the question.
Allegedly the new owners came by or texted one of the leaders at work and told them that it was the new ownership's plan to fire everyone at this job and then make them re-interview for the position if they wanted to work for the new group. Remember the employees, some of whom have been here a short time, were left thinking, "I just got this job now I'm going to be fired?" The older employees that kept this business alive during COVID and staffing issues, are now having to reinterview for jobs that they already have? I feel like this is harassment. The business, which we have been told won't be in the hands of new ownership until September of 2023, still has to be run by the current owner.
What right does new ownership have to come in and threaten everyone with being "fired" and begging for their current job back. It has created a feeling of distrust, disloyalty, and harassment. It doesn't seem to me to even be a legal way of transitioning.
I'm working six nights a week now for seven or eight weeks and at the end of it all, I'm not going to have a job? Nobody is even trying to replace the relief position for me to have two nights off. It's just endless work from now until about the end of June and some of those weeks will be seven days on and no days off.
Does employment law have any precedent that does not allow someone taking over a new business to come in and threaten current employees? We can't even talk with our owner on the phone any longer. We get these text messages that seem more threatening than inspirational.
Lori LaFond is claiming that she has something to do with it. I've had to deal with her constantly trying to control my work and my home life now and it is worse than it has ever been. This was the "plan" that Missy Erickson and her friend Jeffrey Katzenberg came up with when they stole my life savings. I look back now and think that working my ass off to stay alive was only for Jeffrey's entertainment as his pitch to my sister for this money had to have been based on helping me when it was only meant to hurt? I firmly believe that truly evil fugitives are getting away with stalking me in every single facet of my life. Jeffrey was supposed to prevent that, but instead helped it to happen.
I only moved to where I live to save money and make my life better. It's been nothing but worse since I got here...nothing. There isn't a single pleasant memory in twenty years. My friends have all deserted me for "Jeffrey's plan" which he said, allegedly, was designed to help my sister, but behind her back was for something much less supportive or helpful. Yet, here I am again, pushed and pressured into a place where Lori's dream pursuit of my life is just like it was in Palm Springs, California. It isn't better, it's much worse. I will remind all of you that this is a case of attempted murder on many occasions by someone that has stalked me since junior high school. A mentally diagnosed problematic stalker with sadistic tendencies is being favored over the persons that committed this crime for over thirty years.
At one point I heard Lori exclaim, "I was in complete control over his job." Much like her, "I can't believe I got away with everything," comment when the PSPD stopped investigating this crime with a lab report that I saw had viable suspects. It wasn't but a week or so later, Lori would begin planning for more contact with me and my friends on a planned vacation out of state. She brought her trophies with her to Arizona. She brought a gun. She brought her chainsaw. She was arrested multiple times. Nobody sought to let me know that Lori had, indeed, followed me out of state to "finish the job" she started in California. All the while, I was led to believe that I was working with competent people that wanted to stop her. What happened?
A new direction? A new plan? A new idea? All of this was done directly to me. Certainly taking all of the money I'd saved to save myself was well-known to Jeffrey and his family. Having it would have done more for myself and the victims of this crime with or without the help of others. There was no need to involve my sister or family in any further danger. Yet Missy embarked on a campaign of "leaving Lori someone to 'play with' in the meantime. Her words. His actions. Did I really need to be played with?
Today when I got home, I had to try to pack up my belongings so that I could move. Mind you, I've been working endless hours with no finish line to rest. I took a shower, slipped on the floor, and fell, hard. It was a culmination of being exhausted and distracted. I don't really know how badly I am hurt, but it's significant. I texted my father and his response was, less than concerned. I never heard from my sister or niece about where I would be moving or the status. Tomorrow is the last day I am allowed on this property. Jeffrey, the holder of my life savings, did nothing. He literally watched Lori stomp on my brain with Christian and said nothing to my sister, who he told some lie. If you want me to believe that my sister stole this money from me to give to Jeffrey without some lie attached, you must be crazier than I feel. I am out of time. He did nothing. This is the same thing that he did when he stole the money from me while I was moving an entire home, alone.
From my understanding, it was the exact same time that Jonathan, Anthony, Barbara, and others were leaving Palm Springs, Ca for a new home or homes in San Diego, Ca. The time to use that money was right then. Yet, even after all the lies he'd already told to Jonathan, Anthony, and Christopher had been exposed, they still went along with more of his executive silliness. Why would you trust your friend's life to the hands of a man that would rob him? The same man abandoned us in Arizona and brought Missy Erickson to extract Lori LaFond. She had already done this once during the trip, but she did it again. It reminded me of Missy stealing my MRIs from the hospital, twice. A blatant disregard for my safety and others. Then she ends up inside of my nieces' home demanding my sister hand over my savings account? This was Jeffrey's plan? To put a bail surety liar inside the home of my own family after what she did in Arizona? She already allegedly told Jonathan that Jeffrey did this bail trickery, which is illegal, to spare Brian LaFond and Lori LaFond a jail sentence that they so richly deserve. They (the Katzenbergs) couldn't even provide the court with their (Lori or Brian's) real names, yet they could locate and target my bank account which Missy, David, and Bessie had no business even knowing about. Then the coup de gras was, "Make sure you don't tell Kevin we took this money or that Jeffrey has it!" Even my mom was brought in to lie to me. It was heart-wrenching...it is my last memory of her in a real sort of way.
How in the fuck could Jeffrey be so stupid? It defies all logic. It defies any kind of real reasonable grip on this crime. It just shows me the level of incompetence that brought us to where we are now....worse than ever for me. That's where Jeffrey wanted me to be for helping his son and god damn it, he was going to get his way no matter who he did this in front of. It's just like Lori. I'll scream and yell at him all I want no matter what Jeffrey says. Jeffrey has already gone along with this charade of concern, so why not test to see how much more he will let us get away with. Every single solitary test that Lori threw at him, he failed miserably. I wouldn't even say he failed, he intentionally failed so that he could torture me. A blatant disregard for not only my life but the lives of all of my family members. This project was supposed to take my family out of danger, he squarely has put a target on my sister's head because she knows what he told her, and that hurts Lori. He's made my sister into someone that she never was before, someone Lori could legitimately hate. This was Bessie Smith's contribution to my family. She's done it before too. Yet now she lives in Benjamin's home like a reminder of Missy Erickson's demands.
What I tried to avoid the most was exactly the situation I now face alone. Without my mom. Without my friends. Without law enforcement. Without anyone. Not one shred of decency at all from the Katzenbergs who want to be known as the parents of a victim, but help like they are the victimizers themselves. How can you victimize the only advocate out here, and make that point with any validity? This is what Lori does to the parents of her victims? The choices were his. He blames Missy Erickson but he made the choices against the opposition of pretty much everyone. What is your point, Jeffrey? This group of drug dealers is so good that they could fool him? That every parent would have done the same thing? I doubt that is true in the majority of the cases we've seen. Yes, parents have been manipulated but when they came forward to add to our project, Jeffrey rejected them, their stories, and their experiences in favor of nothing. Many have their own police reports and just needed a name...I gave that to them. I gave them a history of this crime and its origins, not you, Jeff. You gave them nothing, but you expected everything and tried to use me to get it. It's the blatant and intentional exploitation of a rape victim. It's blaming the victim and freeing the rapist.
For the record, Jeffrey and Marilyn, when I got raped I wasn't wearing seductive clothing like people that blame the victims do. I was simply sleeping while gay. No push-up bra or worse, braless. No flirtation or drunkenness at a party, like blame the victim people do. Why isn't it the same for us? He clearly took the side of the females that represent less than 1% of the Palm Springs' victims...and it enforces a female empowerment emphasis that Lori has used his whole life. Women should be allowed to rape gay men? This is offensive to me on every single level.
The dehumanizing of my life in favor of creating a lie that Missy Erickson is some kind of rapist Patty Hearst is ridiculous. Nobody hit her over the head and drug her to Lori's drug den and forced her to use meth. No, she was all about stealing from drug dealers and forcing them to serve her too...she just did it with a giggle and extortion. The enforcer of the beatdowns is an easy position for someone like Missy. "You know what she is going to do to you if you go to the police," she would tell people. She wasn't a sidelined player, she was on the field helping support the rapist and stalking all of us as well. Now that it is convenient, she's a damsel in distress. I'm the person in distress and I'm a police informant without ANY police support or safety because Jeffrey offended all of them.
When it is convenient, Missy Erickson plays anyone from bail surety to Jeffrey's personal assistant, to a drug dealer, to sympathetic experienced Alzheimer's daughter, to a stripper with a hatred of men, and on and on. I've never been anyone but a Dept of Justice employee and a victim of this crime. Never anyone but myself. The attempt to take away my story and crumple it up like a newspaper, makes me believe that this is a never-ending vendetta with you, Jeffrey. If anyone was interested in who this female rapist was, you sure weren't going to tell them. It's a coward's way out. When you preferred her freedom to a child's rape or two, you crossed a line that I won't forget. I can't. It's like you blamed it on me. I wasn't there, and you didn't want me to know that Lori was either. She took the trophies that she wears during her sexual assaults to Arizona and all the drugs she needed to effect a plant and call. You didn't even care enough to be helpful then, you would rather I live with your guilt than accept your own responsibility. You fucked up, but I pay the price.
Everything I tried to avoid by moving to this shit hole town, Jeffrey brought right to my doorstep. He didn't do anything like a father would do, but Missy did everything that she knew his daughter would. It was a ploy. Missy studied his daughter and played on his sympathies, it was sickening.
Well, now I'm not human again. I have to ask my sister's permission to be a person. I have to go to her for my own financial problems and beg her not to keep letting Jeffrey keep my mom's gift to me. My own money for sure, I earned it, but she and I did this together so this wouldn't happen. Jeffrey decided that it should. I'm never safe any longer because someone I don't know decided it was better for him if I was used as bait for a serial killer.
These last few days, Patty Hearst hasn't uttered a word. She's not being treated for her highly contagious deadly diseases, no, she's trying to make me mad at Jeffrey so she can have another taste of Katzenberg money like her BFF Bessie Smith. I think that Missy is just as jealous of Bessie as Lori was when Missy had Jeffrey wrapped around her finger. None of these girls should have been near my team, but he forced them all there eventually. Despite everyone's warnings, he knew better. He was dead wrong.
So, I'd like to, once again, thank him for lying to my sister. I'd also like to thank his wife for destroying what my mother and I built right in front of her doe-eyed face. You two didn't even have the decency to ease this living situation that I'm in now nor the business takeover of my last six months, nope, you just sat there again. You must be better at sitting on evidence than any other people in the world. You've practically covered up more truth than you provided. You should be ashamed of the job you did to hurt me. It was a masterpiece of wealth manipulation of the poor. I wasn't poor when you got here though Jeffrey, you had to make me that way. Whatever it was that you promised my sister...it was a fucking lie.
Now I have to deal with all the problems that the two of you stalled and achieved with my family. I have to deal with the overbearing sister. The distraught father. The niece that I love more than any of you. The sadness of my mom's situation. The unclear future of my low-paying and unsatisfying job. You've really made me look as much of a loser as you possibly could. Thanks for the help with my living situation too...what a fucking pair you two are. I know Jeffrey, it's not your fault I have been evicted but it sure didn't bother you. You caused me to live here in a financial hostage situation and now you claim no responsibility. Not one effort was made by my family, friends, or you, to ensure the safety of my informant work. It's as nasty as I've ever seen.
I'm not dead, but I sure feel like I am and all of you want me this way.
