I was a manager fired from walmart warehouse.

[joshuammcneal]

I was fired for integrity. Walmart stated that I lied about performing 5 employee evaluations. I told them that I had performed the "contacts" as they are called, but they were brief and I did not tell the employee I was counting our communication as a contact.
When I was questioned by senior management I told them I had brief contacts, but did not lie about completing the contacts. They said I did not follow the outline for a contact. However, there is no written outline of what the contact must entail to count as a contact. I told senior management that when I was an hourly employee my contacts with my manager were the same as I had performed. They said I should have known the proper way and that I did not follow the proper spirit of the contact.
I applied for unemployment benefits but was initially denied, however I appealed and won, and when walmart appealed I still won since there was no written outline of what a contact was and that I did not act maliciously.
Was I wrongly terminated?

 

[Zigner]

I was fired for integrity. Walmart stated that I lied about performing 5 employee evaluations. I told them that I had performed the "contacts" as they are called, but they were brief and I did not tell the employee I was counting our communication as a contact.
When I was questioned by senior management I told them I had brief contacts, but did not lie about completing the contacts. They said I did not follow the outline for a contact. However, there is no written outline of what the contact must entail to count as a contact. I told senior management that when I was an hourly employee my contacts with my manager were the same as I had performed. They said I should have known the proper way and that I did not follow the proper spirit of the contact.
I applied for unemployment benefits but was initially denied, however I appealed and won, and when walmart appealed I still won since there was no written outline of what a contact was and that I did not act maliciously.
Was I wrongly terminated?

What US State?

In any case, anywhere in the US, yours was not a wrongful termination.

 

[joshuammcneal]

Nevada

I am a nevada resident.
If there is no specific written definition of a contact, how can they hold me to a standard that does not exist?

 

[LeeHarveyBlotto]

I am a nevada resident.
If there is no specific written definition of a contact, how can they hold me to a standard that does not exist?

At-will employment means that you can be fired for any reason, fair or unfair, that does not violate the law.

 

[Zigner]

I am a nevada resident.
If there is no specific written definition of a contact, how can they hold me to a standard that does not exist?

You are an at-will employee. That means they can fire you if the don't like the fact that you wear black shoelaces with white shoes, or they can fire you because you always comb your hair to the left, but today you decided to comb it to the right.

A wrongful termination means that you were terminated based on some legally protected characteristic.

 

[joshuammcneal]

Ok, fired for "black shoes" is a reason, I get the idea I can be fired for a reason, but if their reason is black shoes and I was wearing black shoes, then how do I get fired for that?

 

[joshuammcneal]

Is there anything I can do?

Essentially, is there anything I can do to fight what happened, I don't even have a positive rehire status.

 

[LeeHarveyBlotto]

Ok, fired for "black shoes" is a reason, I get the idea I can be fired for a reason, but if their reason is black shoes and I was wearing black shoes, then how do I get fired for that?

Because there's no law preventing it. Fairness is not a requirement.

 

[cbg]

In an at will state, which is every state except Montana and even includes Montana in some circumstances, you can be fired for any reason that does not expressly violate the law. You can legally be fired for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason; just not an illegal reason.

Do you believe there is a law that would have prevented your termination? If so, which one?

 

[Zigner]

Ok, fired for "black shoes" is a reason, I get the idea I can be fired for a reason, but if their reason is black shoes and I was wearing black shoes, then how do I get fired for that?

Because, on the way in, your supervisor was flipped off by a guy wearing black shoes...now he doesn't like black shoes any more.

 

[commentator]

Unemployment insurance approval, in and of itself, means only that per unemployment law, the employer did not have a valid misconduct reason to terminate you. However, that does not mean they did not have a legal reason to terminate you in labor law, as that reason could be just about anything. There is no protection in the law against firing "at will" and unemployment is pretty much your only recourse. You have proved, to your and their satisfaction that the employer did not really have a good fair reasonable reason to fire you. That doesn't mean they did anything illegal. Find another job before you run out of unemployment benefits. That's all you can do.

 

[Dandy Don]

So what is their opinion/reasoning of exactly how you should have performed the contacts? There is a difference between an evaluation (which is normally done in writing) and your changing the description of it to a "contact". Were some of your "contacts" with these employees negative in regards to how they performed their jobs and is that why you wanted nothing in writing?