Erik Holt

I do that before I even get through the week, man.

I get a notification that I need to show up at a meeting on June 22nd.

And I get the agenda, and it says evaluate my employment.

We all know it's coming, right?

So I go in, they rent a movie theater commercial popcorn machine and lemonade dispensers like it's a party and they try to humiliate me and they blame me for the insurance not being paid.

Yeah.

Like they're the mob.

It's just wild, man.

So in the bylaws and the policies and my authorizations, I was never on the bank account as a fire chief because that's the board's responsibility.

I couldn't cut checks.

I had a credit card with a $5,000 max that I could do an emergency to pay for things, right?

You know, like a fire engine tire blows out and we need to get the fire engine on and I have a credit card to do that.

This was a $23,000 bill, so I had no way to pay it.

Even if I had access to the system, I wasn't on the bank account to sign it.

The policies and bylaws said I couldn't expend more than $5,000.

And, oh, by the way, they illegally froze the bank account.

So on June 22nd, they fired me for the insurance bill not being paid.

You know, in public fashion with, like, movie popcorn machines popping popcorn in the background.

It was quite a...

ridiculous situation and so I file a lawsuit mind you the criminal investigation is still ongoing the court stuff is still ongoing they acted with just such haste I mean it was 33 days from the day I met with the criminal investigator until I no longer had a job