Associated Women Employees of Capital Lumber
Associated Women Employees of Weyerhaeuser
(c) 2006, Mike Barkley
It appears that at Capital Lumber and maybe at Weyerhauser, qualified and competent women managers are being systematically marginalized or forced out. If you are a woman and feel you are being or have been discriminated against in your employment with Capital or Weyerhauser, please get in touch with us. Thank you.

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Michael J. Barkley, Attorney-at-Law
161 N. Sheridan Ave. #1, Manteca, CA 95336 (H) 209/823-4817
mjbarkl@inreach.com
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November 10, 2006

To whom it may concern:

Effective immediately I am resigning my employment with Capital. I have been and continue to be very disappointed with my employment with Capital.

Throughout my employment here, I have been treated as a second-class citizen by my immediate superior because I am a woman. He has not allowed me to do my job, he has interfered with every effort I have made to assume responsibility and learn the business, he has withheld critical information from me that I required to do what tasks were left to me after he continued to perform tasks that were part of my job description, he has expressed sarcastic glee in pointing out mistakes I may have made in my duties rather than helping me to correct them in the future while he has laughed off mistakes he has made, he has countermanded instructions from his superior to allow me to do my job and to allow me to get training and access to critical information I need to do my job, he and several other members of this office have made and continue to make comments disparaging of women in general and me in particular, he has compelled me to change my written review of his performance by making veiled threats, he has repeatedly violated company policy and state law in his administration of employment matters and ignored requests or orders to change this behavior, his behavior has left me unable to trust anything he says without independent verification, and his continued unfair treatment of me has left me constantly upset and at a very high level of stress. I understand that this behavior continues similar behavior he exhibited at his last employment and thus there is no hope of it changing. I am alarmed at the manner in which women continue to disappear from positions of employment at the various branch offices of Capital and I am concerned that his treatment of me has the support of higher management in Capital.

Very truly yours,

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