I was falsely accused by a client at work.
Posted: March 1st, 2019, 11:04 am
A little background...I have been doing massage therapy for a few years now since graduating from school in Dallas in 2013. I worked for one place for a year before doing a bit of my own private practice in Central America and coming back to work at Massage Envy for a year and a half. Pretty much all of my friends are in the massage world. They are either massage therapists themselves or they swear that it helps with their quality of life. I keep in touch with a couple of friends from high school who have connected me to their friends but outside of massage world is a lonely place in America. This is not just a job, it is a spiritual thing that has connected me to so many like-minded individuals. There is a big misconception that I have to work on hairy gorilla men. Actually I have run into a few hairy gorilla men with gross back hair that gets in my way no matter how much lotion I use but the fact is 9 out of 10 of my clients are female. Literally. If I have five clients in a day, four of them are women. There are a few guys coming in but by far all of my regulars are women. My co-workers have mostly been women, management, owners have been mostly women. It is a woman's world, bro and it is okay because I have known this since massage school when it was about the same. There are male therapists that have to be quiet, soft-spoken guys because it is the only way we can be and women are comfortable around us because we are good people at heart.
Okay, so in September I was working for Massage Envy. I was about to start my day when a block was put on my schedule, I was called in and told this particular client said I was peeking at her under the sheets, which came way out of left field because that client's session was TEN DAYS AGO and I found later that she had tipped me cash in an envelope with THANK YOU written on it, her name and date. But of course I had already been fired and was already looking for another job. I showed them that envelope in a plastic bag but the owners just want to sweep it under the rug and forget it happened. I didn't take legal action against anyone or make a fuss about it but I did wish the woman who accused me to get stabbed in an alleyway for bearing false witness. The moral victory is that nobody at that place believes her story because everyone there has known me from two months to a year and a half and know me to be a good person. And on the plus side, I started dating one of my former co-workers because despite our attraction to each other, the only thing holding us back was we were working together. We have been going out since October and she really got me through that tough time from what happened. Now I am working at another location building a following and doing better.
I might have rebounded from that situation but the MeToo movement has gone way too far when a woman can write THANK YOU on a cash envelope and then wait TEN DAYS to come up with a lie and get a man fired. Every woman has said to me if they are uncomfortable during a massage they will say something right there or after the session, certainly not wait a week to say something. So this has made me a little more sensitive about throwing words at people or assigning guilt like a witch hunt.
Okay, so in September I was working for Massage Envy. I was about to start my day when a block was put on my schedule, I was called in and told this particular client said I was peeking at her under the sheets, which came way out of left field because that client's session was TEN DAYS AGO and I found later that she had tipped me cash in an envelope with THANK YOU written on it, her name and date. But of course I had already been fired and was already looking for another job. I showed them that envelope in a plastic bag but the owners just want to sweep it under the rug and forget it happened. I didn't take legal action against anyone or make a fuss about it but I did wish the woman who accused me to get stabbed in an alleyway for bearing false witness. The moral victory is that nobody at that place believes her story because everyone there has known me from two months to a year and a half and know me to be a good person. And on the plus side, I started dating one of my former co-workers because despite our attraction to each other, the only thing holding us back was we were working together. We have been going out since October and she really got me through that tough time from what happened. Now I am working at another location building a following and doing better.
I might have rebounded from that situation but the MeToo movement has gone way too far when a woman can write THANK YOU on a cash envelope and then wait TEN DAYS to come up with a lie and get a man fired. Every woman has said to me if they are uncomfortable during a massage they will say something right there or after the session, certainly not wait a week to say something. So this has made me a little more sensitive about throwing words at people or assigning guilt like a witch hunt.