Weirdest thing happened yesterday.
I went into a goodwill SoCal I frequent once a week. As soon as I walk in one of my buddies I see there often and an employee friend comes up to me saying that one of the employees got fired yesterday due to a Signed statement him and I wrote about her. This statement claims that him and I were sexually harassed by this female employee? I truly had no idea what he was talking about. I have never written any sort of statement and have not seen or talked to this employee in weeks. The times that I have talked to her it was small talk mainly hi and bye. I’m not even sure if I ever gave her my name. There was multiple employees coming up to my friend and I while I was in there asking if we wrote this statement about her. We both said no and truly had no idea what this was even about. I even asked to see this statement so I can disprove it but they didn’t have any access to it. I was told this employee came into work the other day and HR was already there. They took her into the office and fired her and proceeded to walk her out. She then told the rest of the employees that it was because of this statement.
I’m led to believe this employee was fired for something else but maybe tried to blame myself and my friend to hide the true reason to her co workers? Truly this story didn’t make any sense to me. I did not like that my name was being brought up with these rumors that I am truly not apart of. Not sure if this calls for any legal action? Should I reach out to HR and tell them what happened? Or should I just let it be?