Discrimination & Retaliation

hey sales savages.  some of you may remember me from posts this summer and earlier this fall.  I'm the sales rep whose manager told them to shut up in front of a large executive team at a fortune 100 company.  

Many of you took the time to give me advice.  I appreciate each and every single one of you.  I'm going to keep this brief but here's where I've ended up:
- I went to my sales VP with my concerns and the clients negative feedback on my boss. a week later he came back and gave me a vague list of 8 things he'd identified I needed in order to be successful and told me my concerns had zero validity to them.  moving forward the boss I filed my complaint against would report to my VP on a weekly basis on if he thought I should keep my job or not.  they were careful not to document any of this in writing.  
- 2 weeks from there the micromanaging and over scrutiny began.  my boss began asking me for lengthy emails detailing everything I did and calling out "concerns" he had in writing.  Each week I replied with reasons his statements were inaccurate and asking if my peers were being held to the same standards and how I could get a record of those asks from the larger group - which were never responded to.
- In late Sept I then got diagnosed with a serious health issue. I went to HR and got a reasonable accommodation request approved.  I then went to let my boss know and he ended the call citing he needed to call HR and recommend my immediate termination.  "you're clearly way too sick to keep a job" - I was still significantly ahead of my peers in new pipe generation and prospecting activity.  I followed up with a lengthy email documenting his discriminatory behavior and the company met with outside legal council the very next morning and kept it Public so I was able to retain a record of this.
- My boss then intentionally told off my prospect losing me my largest deal in company history.  this time, both a current customer and a coworker witnessed it - both of whom approached HR on my behalf and filed formal complaints.
- I have filed 6 formal complaints with leadership and HR over zoom and sent over 40 pages of complaints and rebuttals to falsely documented "concerns" my boss attempted to use to create a false narrative against me with.  I've also had 5 peers that I know of go to HR to file supporting complaints and concerns.
- I have since found another deal ($650k) I can close before end of year - one of the fastest in company history. I got the verbal commit last week for which my boss after giving me zero way around it, was present for and witnessed.
- Today, I was told I'm going on a pip plan.  every single reason is something I have hundreds of salesforce pages of documented reporting, complaints with HR (in writing) and legitimate proof of which in every aspect I am ahead of 95% of my peers in.  I let them know on the call I felt this was retaliatory and openly discriminatory and that I am being held to different standards than all of my peers. (I am the only woman on the team.  I'm also covered under medical discrimination and have this heavily documented now 3 going on 4 months straight in writing via formal complaints to HR after consistent discriminatory behavior by my boss as recently as last week when he shamed me for not being open to moving a serious doctors appointment to go support another reps customer I have zero reason to take time away from my job to do on-site CSM work for as a field sales rep held to a quota).

We all know what I need to do. 

My final and only ask from all of you amazing people is 
1) Do you have a recommendation for an amazing enterprise sized discrimination/labor attorney that has a presence in the northeast (I have calls into 2 big ones but being proactive here just in case)
2) Any advice on PIP. they want me to sign by end of day tomorrow. it says they can fire me at any time based on the terms of the pip which are 100% too vague to quantify at anytime even if I hit the plan.  I feel like I'm being tricked into signing something that would hurt my legal case. I also know they'll be able to fire me sooner if I don't sign.  Any just literal advice here from experience or a friends etc?

Good riddance it's almost 2022.  When will companies understand you can't do this to people and actually think they don't have the guts to hold them accountable for it?  Aftet everything we've been through these last 2 years and as a millennial it seems so clear we've all been traumatized to the point we wouldn't even question suing over something this clear cut.  It's like I'm living in the matrix. thanks all and BE WELL!!!!!
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CoorsKing
WR Officer
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Retired King of the Coors Knights
Do not sign the PIP, you have multiple strong cases showing discrimination here. If you haven’t already, back up all of your documentation into PDFs on a personal device so that you will retain access when they shut you out of the systems, which they will. 

Hopefully someone here has a good legal recommendation for you, so sorry you are going through that! 
LordBusiness
Politicker
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Chief Revenue Officer
Your boss telling you that "your too sick to work" is on itself a significant discrimination issue, let alone all of the other issues that you have stated.  I would retain counsel immediately, but know that its likely going to be an uphill battle.  If the leadership at this company has allowed the above to happen for so long, you can likely bet they aren't going to settle.   Honestly, there are some AMAZING companies out there who are looking for talent, go to Bravado Jobs, identify your dream product/company and hit up their recruitment staff, and see if they have a spot for a quota crusher.   These types of posts really make me sad, but it happens to frequently.  
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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Refuse to sign it. 
braintank
Politicker
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Enterprise Account Executive
As others said, don't sign anything without consulting with a lawyer. Also, I hope you're looking for a new job. This company sounds miserable and even if you have a big deal in the pipeline I don't think the commission is worth the toxicity. 
Sunbunny31
Politicker
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Sr Sales Executive 🐰
What a horrible story.   I'm so sorry this is happening to you.  I do not have a recommendation for a lawyer, but with this story, I would think you should be able to find a good one.   

I'm just astonished, this is wrong on so many levels.

Finally, I hope you are on the road to better health.   You're carrying so much right now.
DungeonsNDemos
Big Shot
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Rolling 20's all day
To start with " moving forward the boss I filed my complaint against would report to my VP on a weekly basis on if he thought I should keep my job or not." 
HOLY SHIT and it just gets worse.

My heart goes out to you dealing with this level of bullshit. I'm sorry I don't have an attorney recommendation but I truly hope you find somewhere new, and better, very soon. 

You have the war room with you and we are all angry on your behalf!
TechSalesQueen
Executive
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Sr. Enterprise Account Executive
Every time I thought “this can’t get worse or more insane” - it does. Never in my life did I think something to this extreme could even actually happen. This war room and the people in it has been so incredibly supportive and what I really needed during the last few months. I love you ppl even though I don’t know who you actually are - it doesn’t even matter. 💕👊🏻
Mobi85
Politicker
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Regional Sales Manager
Do not sign until you get some legal council to review. They are pushing for you to sign to try to cover their own shit.
I am sorry you are going through this, know that not all companies are like this and sorry that you got some shitty humans there.
Diablo
Politicker
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Sr. AE
This is so crazy and it's hard to see companies that are still make dominated and focus on everything else except meeting their goals.

I don't have any resources that you asked for but try to get hold of a new job and all the best!
UserNotFound
Politicker
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Account Executive
Jesus. I am so sorry you're going through this... I have no advice, just solidarity. Fuck these managers that think they're untouchable, and honestly fuck HR Departments that protect them.
AlphaCharlie
Arsonist
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Account executive
I agree with my peers here, Do Not Sign it!!!
FinanceEngineer
Politicker
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Sr Director, sales and partnerships
Get a lawyer. This sounds like an open and close case, and if you can talk to someone, they can give you a brief on what to expect.
A few years back I was being targeted after getting sick and ended up leaving prior to them doing anything. When I was talking with an employment lawyer I went to undergrad with, he told me that he can easily take this case. The only reason we didn't go further was that I can only claim/sue for lost wages and it would have been 0 since I was leaving for a better opportunity.
TechSalesQueen
Executive
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Sr. Enterprise Account Executive
Ugh I’m sorry you went through that!!! I hope everything turned out okay in the long run and really appreciate you taking the time to share this!
SADNES5
Politicker
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down voters are marketing spies
Don't sign the PIP. 

First win, documentation of everything.

First mistake, thinking HR was on your side. Sorry to hear amigo. You need to chat with an employment lawyer ASAP. Stop giving HR all your evidence so they can create counters.

Tell Employment Lawyer you have a constructive dismissal case and discrimination based on health with unreasonable accommodation... and receipts. 

Next step: "shut the eff up" don't talk about this case with anyone except your significant other and lawyers. Your lawyer will tell you exactly that statement. That's it. TBH. This post seems fine with barriers to entry for non-sales people, but don't air this in public, it will help their team create counter arguments to all your points. 

The employer has the duty to prove they did no harm, so the less ammo you give them, the better. 

Best of luck
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