Employee With Anxiety Disorder was Fired After having a Panic Attack and Received $450,000 USD

 

Employee Walks Out of His Own Birthday Party from Panic Attack

Kevin Berling is a former employee at Gravity Diagnostics laboratory in Covington, Kentucky. He had a simple request. He didn't want a birthday party thrown in his honor due to his anxiety disorder, but his company did anyway. Kevin had a panic attack, walked out, and was later fired over the incident.

During the ordeal, Kevin was upset, had a panic attack, and eventually walked out of the celebration during the lunchtime party. At the time, his coping method was to hug himself while asking the other employees to stop. At least two employees felt uncomfortable with the situation and asked Berling to stop. These employees then left the conference room.

 He expressly asked them not to throw him a birthday party due to his panic attacks when he is the center of attention. The next day, his office manager confronted him about his behavior of walking out during the party. He began to experience another panic attack.

Later, he sued Gravity Diagnostics for lost wages and emotional distress, and the jury awarded him $450,000.00 USD in cash.

Gravity Diagnostics COO Clearly Doesn't Understand Anxiety Disorders

The Chief Operating Officer, Julie Brazil, stands by her employee's actions to escort this upset man out of the building, and the employees removed his access to the building. The employees then sent out security alerts to all employees that he was not allowed back into the building.

She said: "My employees de-escalated the situation to get the plaintiff out of the building as quickly as possible while removing his access to the building, alerting me, and sending out security reminders to ensure he could not access the building, which is exactly what they were supposed to do. As an employer who puts our employee safety first, we have a zero-tolerance policy and we stand by our decision to terminate the plaintiff for his violation of our workplace violence policy."

Brazil told news Link NKY that it was all of her other employees that were the victims.

Editor's note: It appears that the COO of Gravity Diagnostics should take sensitivity training on how to deal with employees with anxiety disorders.

Source:

Goth, Meghan. "Man awarded $350k after firing over birthday party at Gravity Diagnostics." LINK NKY. 14 April 2022.

Do you think that Gravity Diagnostics was inconsiderate of Kevin Berling's request to not throw him a birthday party?

Kevin David Email: Lessons From Managing My Own Team

 

Kevin David

Email from Kevin David

Hey My Friend, Over the past few months, I’ve heavily focused on improving the culture in my team. Before, everyone was mostly working on their own tasks… And all communication went through me. However, as we have scaled, I found that it’s not sustainable... I was orchestrating everything and there wasn’t much independent thinking. So I figured I need to instill more accountability and responsibility into the whole team. How did I do that? First, I made sure that everyone’s personal goals align with the big goal of the company… To free millions of people from the corporate grind. Secondly, I implemented more meetings. This might sound counterintuitive to most advice out there… But I didn’t do this just to brainstorm new ideas or review numbers... The goal of these meetings is to listen to every person working in our team, hear their suggestions, and make the team connect with each other. Now, 2 months in, we have much better communication… Work gets done twice as fast… And new ideas for improvement are coming from left and right. Just as the old saying goes… "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." The lesson I want you to learn here is that in business, your most valuable resource is the people. If you can make these people feel like it’s their company… Make them take responsibility and inspire them to put in 110% to achieve their goals… Then your business will thrive. Kevin

P.S. Talking about our team, we still have a few more spots open for this month to take on new clients and build you a 100% automated Amazon store. If you’re looking to invest in an asset that provides extra cash flow month after month… With unlimited scalability and minimal time to manage (since we do the work for you)... Then click here to watch my quick overview of how 2020 accelerated the growth of eCommerce and how you can grab a piece of the $4 trillion industry.

Kevin David: Top 10 Life Lessons and Our New Website is LIVE

 

Email address: kevin@officialkevindavid.com

Subject: Top 10 Life Lessons + Our New Website Is LIVE

Email body: 

Hey My Friend,

First, thank you for all birthday wishes I received over the past couple of days; I am truly grateful!

My amazing team decided to give me the gift of a completely redesigned website!

It looks amazing, and I love it!

But the part I am the most excited about is all new world-class content we have planned for you, including:

• New free trainings
• Blogs
• Podcasts
• Videos
• And much more

You can click here (or on the picture below) to check it out! I would love to hear your feedback on it.

It looks like many of you enjoyed the latest FB birthday post (I do one each year) where I outlined the top life-changing mindset shifts I experienced during the last year. Below is the shortened version of this post for easy application! Every year on my birthday, I like to carve out time to reflect on the past year to see what I’ve learned... And I love to acknowledge valuable insights from my victories or struggles that I could also pass on to other people. So I’ve created a TOP 10 list of the major breakthroughs and lessons I learned over the past 12 months… Everyone experiences fear, demotivation, hopelessness, and feeling overwhelmed or lost. It’s okay because that shows we are outside of our comfort zones and it’s the only way we can grow! Every day you have the choice to choose whether to be kind and spread love or to be negative and spread anger. You attract the energy you put out. So choose happiness and live for yourself. Don’t worry about impressing others because ultimately no one cares. Learn to forgive yourself and others. Holding the grudge and reliving negative emotions is always more destructive than the event itself. Learn to let go - it’s the most liberating feeling. What you see on the surface is rarely the truth. Stop comparing yourself to other people. What’s more important is your own happiness. Some of the most successful people I know are actually unhappy inside. That’s why I’m so grateful I get to do what I love and make good money doing it! The grass seems always greener on the other side but what matters is how you take care of your own grass! A “rich” person sees a “broke” man playing outside in a small yard with his kids and feels jealous because he is on his way to another 16 hour workday and can’t spend time with children. A “broke” person sees the “rich” person driving a new exotic car and feels jealousy. It’s a lose-lose situation and the only thing you should do is take care of your own grass. Use every interaction you can to form relationships and be kind. You’ll never know whose connection you’ll need in the future and it’ll come back to you tenfold. Treat everyone you meet like a close friend you haven’t seen in years. Confidence is king. You have to believe you deserve everything you want in life because no one else won’t. You have to be able to see your success BEFORE it exists. It’s the only way to make it come true. Find a “higher purpose”. Working towards your purpose is the only thing that can give you the energy to keep going and help you push through the hardest obstacles. What’s your mission on this earth? You can’t do multiple things well at an extremely high level. Find your vision and FOCUS on it entirely. As an entrepreneur, it’s so easy to get dragged into multiple different projects, and not even realize how much that mental fatigue is affecting you. Respectfully say “no” and focus on the right things that are in tune with your vision. The best way to live life is to be genuinely and consistently happy. Here’s how I’ve achieved happiness. Remove the things and activities that make you unhappy. Always be honest with yourself and honest about what you really enjoy. Build your life around that. Progress is what makes you feel good. Relationships are what fulfill you. And finally, gratitude is what brings you peace. Be grateful for life! Full post can be found here. These are the most important lessons I learned over the past year. I hope they have been valuable for you and I encourage you to start applying them into your own life. If this list seems overwhelming at first, then start by applying just 1 lesson every day. This way you can truly analyze and implement each point individually for maximum effect. It’s where you'll find everything you need to become the entrepreneur you always dreamed of becoming. Until next time, Kevin David P.S. As already mentioned, I would love to hear your feedback on new website, as well as to hear your ideas on content you would like us to include in the future.

Ambassador Kevin Anthony of Benin Email Phishing Scam

From: Kevin Anthony
email: m.colosio@alice.it
subject: Attn: TERESA CARRION ORTEGA, Over Your Lottery Fund of $20 Million.

Embassy of Benin in Washington DC, The United States 
WEBSITE;  www.beninembassy.us; Benin Embassy

Email: ambassadoroffice55@gmail.com
Address: 2124 Kalorama Road, NW Washington,DC 20008. 
Head Of Mission: Ambassador kevin anthony
Phone:  (+1) 559 494 4499 OR +229-9873-8712 

Ref: Payment of $20 Million Approval.

Attn: TERESA CARRION ORTEGA, Over Your Lottery Fund of $20 Million.


The Main truth about your Fund in Africa is that your email address won you 
the sum of $20 Million from LOTTERY COMPANY BRANCH IN AFRICA BENIN REP.,by a 
set-up program called ANNUAL WINNING ONLINE BALLOTING SYSTEM, This program 
called Annual Winning Online Balloting System is a program set-up by the World 
Organization, and Financially supported by the World Organization including 
your Government as means to congratulate the Blessed Lucky winners of the year, 
so luckily to you, your email address was among the earlier emails that won 
this $20 Million each to all the emails owners and that is how you become a 
winner to this Winning Fund of $20 Million.

While all the numerous emails and phone calls you have been receiving was from 
the old retired workers from Africa who are using their jobless/idleness to 
still fees from you all because they knew everything about your Lottery Fund 
when they where still in the Office, So that is why you haven't received any 
dime irrespective of all your effort.

When this issue was discovered, all Funds in Africa belonging to foreign 
Beneficiaries was directed up to this Embassy representing the West Africa 
Benin Rep. in NW Washington, DC 20008 USA, with purpose of transferring your 
Lottery Fund into your Bank Account from United State.

Although, We have received an instruction from the office of UNITED NATIONS 
POPULATION FUNDS ORGANIZATION under the West African Ministry Of Finance, few 
days from our correspondence to release your Overdue Compensate awarded payment 
fund valued sum of $20 million into your contract account, we are on the 
process to open an Domiciliary Bank Account in your name with the BANK OF 
AMERICA and forward to you the account information so that you can access your 
fund in your account by yourself, But we are surprise this morning when we are 
about to open escrow account on your behalf, we received another email from 
Mrs. Mary Lynn Brown whom claim to be your COUSIN relative and also your 
representative with a letter of trust certificate telling us that she is your 
next of kin and you left an instruction to Him for the claim of your (deposited 
fund $20 million).

Here are the below account information she forwarded to us to transfer your 
fund into her account.

The account which she forward to us as follow.

Kevin Anthony
Bank of America
St. Petersburg, California USA
Bank Telephones:  1 877 984 7465 or  1 866 925 2036
Account Holder Name: Mrs. Mary Lynn Brown.
Customers Address:  US Post Office:  P.O Box 1956, San Ramona, California 98483
Account No: 9590078501567
Routing No:  031101169

Note: CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE has been made by the same person to 
transfer your $20 Million into the above information, Meanwhile if you are not 
in support of that, then respond quickly with reconfirmation to the bellow 
information's as we don't need any delay at all.

Please, do reconfirm to us as a matter of urgency if this person is from you 
and has your authority to receive your fund. If this person is not your 
representative, you are requested to contact us without any delay and send this 
information as soon as possible, so that your fund value of $20 Million united 
state dollars will be released to you through bank telegraphic wire transfer 
method.

Furnish your valid data to enable us verify your details.

Your Full Name, Married/Single, Current Home Address, Your Telephone Number, 
Age and Sex, Occupation,Your Weekly / Monthly Income, Copy ID or International 
Passport for Identification.

However, we shall proceed to issue all payment details to the said person 
explained above, if we do not hear from you within the next 4 working days from 
today.

Yours Ambassador In Mission in Benin
Head Of Mission Ambassador Kevin Anthony
Ambassador Of Benin in USA.