I realized that while it may be dangerous to speak up at ones own place of work for fear of retaliation. It's open-season to speak up at any other place. Which is the way around this.
Can't fucken fire me if I don't work for you in the first place!
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In short, people obviously don't want to attack ones own company. But other companies? Open fucking season. Karen my shit up.
Free-floating Karening for justice, I am entertained. In that case, here's something you can check -- every company is required to have a "
registered agent". This guy's job is to receive and forward hate mail -- the kind that contains notice of a lawsuit. And information on who this guy is and a way to reach him has to be publicly available. (And if they
don't have one... you can report them to the state for that and get the shit fined out of them.) Sometimes this agent will be a lawyer in an outside firm the company has a deal with, but in many cases, it will be someone within the company itself.
Otherwise there's the usual stuff, like crawling around LinkedIn and seeing who's listing themselves at working at your target company, which can then be a nice name to direct a snailmail letter to if nothing else is available. Also, some companies still have their full company directory hiding on their websites if you look hard enough, or aim a search engine at their domain if they think they're cLeVaR by not having an obvious landing page, but also not protecting the good stuff.
And if you decide you want to dial up an actual licensed attorney within the company to yell at, and you have the name but not the number, you can almost certainly find the guy. Most states maintain a publicly-viewable directory of all attorneys licensed to practice within their boundaries, and those directories must contain the attorney's official business address, phone number, and sometimes email. These directories are often on the internet these days. One catch -- if the attorney is officially "in house" and it's a company with a multistate presence, the guy may not be licensed in the state his office is physically in, due to one of the rare rules regarding practice that's not stuck in the Dark Ages. His only client can be the company that he's an employee of, but in trade, he can work in any state the company has a presence in. So if you don't see the guy where you expect him, check the Bar Directories of other states the company's in, you'll find him eventually.
I don't have much advice about HR ghouls, but one thing you could try beyond LinkedIn stalking is checking relevant professional associations they might be part of, if you have a name but no contact info. A likely place would be checking
JAMS, an association of Alternative Dispute Resolution specialists (mediators, etc). Those skills are pretty relevant to HR if they want to actually not suck, and they just might do some contract work mediating on the side, or otherwise have some kind of public link to them that could be used to make contact.
Happy kvetching!