I am going to try to make a very long story short. I was terminated Friday because I would not sign a non-compete agreement which was very vague and given to us with no explanations and a dead-lineo f 2 days to sign and if we didn't we are fired. Oh yeah, I work at an LTACH for 6 very rocky months as a nurse manager. The place is run awfully by a non-clinical CEO who decided to do this out of no where. i knew my job wasn't safe there, and this non-compete agreement would have not let me work within 10 mi of "Company" for 2 years after termination or leaving. There are many hospitals within a 10 mi radious, inclusing the one I left and started my career at to take this job.
I made a meeting with the CEO to ask for an amendment to the agreement before I sign. He is trying to say we can't work at another LTACH, but the agreement just says "company" he took this opportunity to go off on me, tell me I was doing a crappy job, and told me if I do not sign, I am terminated. I told him I would not sign unless he amended it to say LTACH. He said, fine then you are terminated. In front of the director of HR I made him say he was terminating me for the reason of me not signing the agreement. He was very clear about that. he said as of that day I was terminated and have 2 weeks.
SO, later HR (I am friendly with her) calls and tells me he will forget everything if I sign the agreement. I say no. not unless it is ammended, and after the attack, I don't feel safe signing it, he'll just fire me for other reasons. Then way later, my ex nurse manager form my other facility who works there also calls me and says he went into the office and sais he would not sign the agreement unless he changed it to LTACH. The CEO then says "sure, I'll change it" WTH? he told me he wouldn't and I should just take his word for it.
he wants to give me a chance now to sign the ammended agreement. I and others feel he is saying that because after he terminated me for not signing it, he consulted his lawyers, found out what he did was illegal and trying to go back on it now.
I have been told I have a case. I believe I do. I go back, then he fires me for a totally different reason. He terminated me for not signing the agreement without the ammendment THEN went and changed the agreement to exactly what I asked, and now is trying to save his butt by giving me a chance to sign it? Hell no!
So I will be talking to a lawyer on Monday. I was just wondering, should I go into work monday, even though he said I was terminated and had 2 weeks. Me going into work is simply me going as a terminated employee , getting my last paycheck and tying up lose ends, because i care aboutt he others I work with.
ANy thoughts at all on anything I wrote would be appreciated
