Clifford v. American Drug Stores8/22/2005
hat time, Doose had been promoted and sent to a new store.
Tammy Carranza (now Aldag) testified that she was first employed by Sav-On as a checker in May 1995, and within three months, was promoted to loss prevention as an agent, and then to loss prevention supervisor at the Diamond Bar store. Her duties included checking in-store policies, procedures, anything coming in or going out, watching, supervising, viewing security tapes, and having employees sign policies, including sexual harassment policies.
In late June or early July 1997, after Doose became the manager of her store, Ryan reported to Carranza that Stange had made a complaint against Doose, and that there was a videotape of the incident, depicting "sick sexual things." Carranza telephoned Perez, her supervisor, but when she told him there was a sexual harassment complaint, he laughed. When Carranza described what Doose had done, Perez told her that she needed to remember that she was part of corporate's team, was starting to go far in the company, and that she could file a claim, but that she should take care of it herself, and in essence, that she knew how to sweep stuff under the rug.
Carranza also told Perez that Doose had been captured on videotape engaging in inappropriate behavior. Perez instructed her to put the tape in a manila envelope and hide it in the security drawer of the file cabinet, and said that he would pick it up in the morning. She followed his instructions, and the tape has never been seen since.
After speaking to Perez, Carranza called the 800-hotline number which allows employees to make anonymous sexual harassment reports. They told her they would take care of it, but she had no knowledge of their doing anything in response to her call. Sometime after that, however, Carranza was listening to the loss prevention message line, as she was required to do every day, when Doose approached her, said to an assistant manager who was present, that Carranza could not be trusted using the telephone. He then grabbed the telephone away from her, saying, "I think I'll pull this F-ing phone out of the wall." Doose pointed in her face, said she was not trusted, and that he would "show" her. He threatened to transfer her to San Bernardino, which would create a hardship for her. She had specially requested the Diamond Bar store, because it was only 20 minutes from her son's school.
In August 1997, Perez informed her that she had been transferred to San Bernardino, and in September, she retained an attorney. She is no longer with the company.
Juan Zaragoza, an employee in the Diamond Bar store on the graveyard shift when Doose was the general manager, testified that Doose said something obscene about the female anatomy to him in August 1997, and he reported it to his supervisor. Conway interviewed him about the remark in September 1997, as part of her first investigation into the sexual hara
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