Slander - The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.



 This is a story about a retired army veteran named "Aire" working on a military base as an executive chef
                                                              (This is a fictional story)


                 Aire was a very passive man; disciplined in many arts of hand to hand combat and martial arts, He was also raised in the streets of Harlem New York city as the only child. He entered the U.S army to escape the hood and make a name for himself. He was a short, soft-spoken, very well educated black man. In his 14th year as a career soldier and SSG/E-6, He went through a serious divorce and fell in love with a beautiful young woman named Dove. Dove consoled Aire in his time of need and won his heart and they became an item. But Dove was PFC/ E-3 and he was a Non commissioned officer, So their relationship was considered "Breaking the rules".

              After being warned time and time again about the relationship, Aire and Dove tried to keep their love hidden, But their supervisors took it personally and broke the rules themselves in an attempt to catch them. In the end, It was Dove lack of professionalism at work that drove the stake into Aire's heart and ended his career (so he thought), and in his 15th year he was busted down in rank and took a loss of almost $2,000 a month. crippling his life and career so badly, he could never ever recover (so he thought). Aire began to stress and use recreational drugs as a coping mechanism. Little did he know he was self medicating a more serious health issue

             Then the 4 year war began...... Desperately Aire and dove fought tooth and nail to stay afloat and somehow salvage the unknown future. But Dove, was falling out of love with Aire. Maybe it was the lost of money, maybe it was the prospect of Aire getting kicked out the army with an dishonorable discharge. Still, to this day... Aire does not know. All he knows is he ended up fighting the entire fort leonard wood and a separate more hostile war at home. He begged her for love and she did not give it. He asked her to talk and she only ignored him. She barely touched him and eventually once she started working at E.D.X; her new found friends and attention pushed her further away. So far away he tried to commit suicide.

            But they had a child.... a beautiful little girl that he loves soooo much, and right before Aire put the car into drive and go straight of the bridge just past devils elbow...... he thought about that child and his others, then he had an epiphany! The Army had abandoned him, the woman he lost everything for had abandoned him.  But this small glimpse of what his future may hold if he listened to the unknown voice gave him a moment of hope, it changed his mind. so he sat there with his foot on the gas and the parking brake in his hand and thought. What if the voice was right, what if the voice was a delusion. Minutes went by, and a river of tears filled his lap. He had decided.... He decided to fight back, he chose to live!

          Aire listened very carefully to that voice and took heed to what it said an showed him. And instantly things started to change. blessings were falling from the heavens at a slow but very constant rate. Aire noticed that the more he followed his heart, the more he fought back, the more blessings came..... except one..... Dove would not change. She was set upon forcing Aire to leave her by excessive mistreatment and lack of affection. She didn't want the break up to be "her fault" and she was too afraid to say she just didn't love him anymore. So for the remaining 3 years of their relationship. Dove knowingly (or unknowingly) forced Aire to concede and walk away from her.

       He was fed up, just coming out of the worst depression imaginable and still fought. Aire was in a military police battalion, and their no tolerance laws far exceeded the armies way of thinking and they outcasted him. the mistreatment he received was beyond civil violations. The entire battalion gazed upon him with shame and resentment. He fought and fought. bit his tongue, put on a great smile did everything he could do until the U.S army finally had no more room to prosecute him and he retired as an E-4. But Aire was cunning, in god's favor and extremely lucky, some of those constant blessing contained; A trip to rehab for using recreational drugs that resulted in him receiving over $3,000 a month an VA benefits because of a hyperthyroid condition that the military overlooked for years, a full military retirement, and a job as an executive chef right back on base at E.D.X, the place that tried to bury him alive.


     Then a new threat arose.... After Aire finally left dove he had to fight to see his child. The child he was home with for over 2 years of his and her life as he waited to be dishonorably discharged. The child he spent over 10 hours a day with, teaching, feeding and raising while Dove worked, went to the gym, and partied with her new found friends.  She literally left him home to die with no concern. So Aire decided to take Dove to court and put himself on child support. But Dove would not give Aire her new address and was trying to skip town...... so before he let his child slip away, before she could try to take more of his money, Aire hired a lawyer, took her to court and had her served at work. He had no choice, he wasn't about to lose his baby girl by any means. Dove lied and didn't tell people that she used his child as an advantage every chance she got. She tried everything, she tried to force him into marriage in order to have his child around the woman he was with. Because her excuse for him not to see his child was because the woman he was seeing wasn't his wife. Dove was also cunning, She slandered Aire to everyone who would listen or had an external reason to hate Aire and before he got hired....the people who worked above and below him welcomed him with a hostile environment, in an attempt to strengthen her personal war.

     She told people he beat her, she told people he was broke and he couldn't cook. She told people very horrible things about Aire which only gave Aire's new enemies power. Some people had been working at E.D.X for a very long time and was very upset that Aire got promoted. Some of those people took it personally. Some vowed to see him fired, some claimed they would not work for him, others outright disrespected him and spread Dove's rumors out of sheer jealousy.

    The very first day of working as an executive chef, Aire was directly disrespected by a "cook"Named sloan who worked in bldg 9911 ( not a supervisor, a regular worker) Whom was of lesser rank and authority. She came to work that morning, folded her arms in a corner and directed Aire as if he was the subordinate. When aire tried to be civil and establish his position she ran and told one of her close friends and Aires supervisor, a woman named April Mae.

    It appeared from that moment, April - mae rode Aire professionally and unprofessionally. But Aire had been through that prior, when he was a military cook, so he kinda took it lightly. but the complaint went all the way to the top and Aire found himself being told to "just go with the flow, here at E.D.X, we do things differently. And so he did... he went with the flow. but not even two days later, Sonya and fellow executive chef started in on Aire. Lying and spreading rumors. She actually told Aires co workers that he was stealing money out of the cash box every night. not thinking that Aire just spent $200 of his own money on a thanks giving event and worked over 10 hours on his day off to set up that event, unpaid with no complaints. To this date, Aire put over $200 dollars back into the cash box every-time it came up short just to combat the slander.

  She made every complaint she could, she even started to lie so much because Aire was so hated that people started changing the work environment into a hostile environment. People from all buildings was treating Aire like a dog, talking about him and ruining his character. Sonya even went to one of Aires friends child, amped him up and convinced him to fight Aire. That young man was arrested moments after leaving the bar on devils elbow christmas day and is still locked up because of Sonya malcontent. whatever she told him, it pissed him off so bad that he came home, kicked in the door and attacked Aire. As said earlier Aire is a devout martial artist that absolutely loved to fight. after being bullied most of his childhood years Aire had over 500 fights before he got to high school. he fought for the 2nd id korean taekowndo team, held 2 blackbelts and studied pretty much every version of fighting there is...... and he whooped that 26 year old boy into submission with out a scratch and after Aire left the home, the man attack his mom and her friend resulting in a 7 year sentence.

    But Sonya had the audacity to come in the next day and tell Aire "she was "sorry". coincidentally when she walked into the office to take over shift, Aire was in the middle of telling his co worker how he " whoooped this mans ass" and still didn't know why the man attacked him. Sonya clarified that reason and Aire was livid.

   But Aire stood his ground and decided to continue to listen to what that voice said. "fight back" he heard and so fight back he did. He decided to counter all accusations directly since he was being indirectly attacked. Some of the envious E.D.X workers were straight cowards. So the slander continued. Aire... being the smart person he was, hired a lawyer. he always had a lawyer for something. then Aire began to document and film his mistreatment and extremely hostile environment. He documented people sleeping and breaking rules, he visited other buildings and documented shift leaders and first cooks breaking policy, for he knew his enemy would not let up. they were many, and it would take a supreme blow to finally end the slander.

Aire wasn't mad at the office, oh no! Aire was going to be just as petty as the cowards who slandered him. the jealous, stagnant, lazy, human waste that really didn't care about the company policies and reputation. so he challenged them on an facebook page just to see just how far the rabbit hole went.

 Once again... in the end, it all fell back on Dove. Dove had slandered Aire so much that almost everyone hated him and they didn't even know him or what he had experienced. The more and more he prospers, the more and more she realized what a mistake she made. sometimes shes sweet, sometimes she's evil and shows no regard for the relationship between Aire and his child. But shes always asking for money when less than 6 months ago he was a "dead beat broke ass nigga"

So as Aires final warning, in hopes that maybe things will change, he decided to let me write this story so he could properly introduce himself to his fellow co workers. He feel he owes it to them for some reason before things escalated. I understand him.... anyone can turn the other cheek when the circumstances are non physical and solely directed at one person. but when people start saying he doesn't do for his child when he gives her mother more money than her pay check on top of gifts etc, it changes the environment. when people start treating someone unequally, effecting their well being, job, and home life.... it changes the environment.

    When workers use make physical threats to have someone hurt, it changes the environment, especially when they have no idea the capabilities of the person they are threatening. for all we know, that person might take it off base and catch the slanderer or attacker and confront them. When supervisors, Co workers and peers decide to plot on this mans job and not give him a fair shot, use personal feelings in a professional environment it changes that environment.
So as a mediator I decided to help "Aire" and post this.

*He has a cooked for generals and hosted many military events
* he has competed in over 14 army culinary competitions and won all but 2 at the highest level of the branch as well as many civilian competitions. he knows the TB med extremely well due to those competitions
*He has trained over 1000 military troops and civilian workers in food handling, preparation and storage.
*He has a degree in culinary arts and currently in school for hotel and restaurant management.
* He has supervised at least 4 dining facilites on fort leonardwood and was the culinary arts instructor for fort leonardwood.
*He has deployed to iraq, Korea, and Bosnia totaling over 7 years of time away from his family to defend you lazy worthless unappreciative welfare recipients.
* He retired after 20 years of service, something less than 1% of all americans past and present will ever do.
* and sooooooo many more accolades, awards and decorations both civilian and military alike.
*He is highly intelligent, extremely physical, vindictive, and passionate about his crafts.
* He has earned his position whether you like it or not and this is his final warning to keep his name out your mouth. and if your not a coward then instead of bumping your gums to joe smoe at work in some distant building, why don't you have the intestinal fortitude to say it to the man's face. your so big and bold from the shadows, you see him out in town, at the elementary school, or in Walmart. believe in yourself and the lies you tell and stop whispering... be direct, or say "why don't you go tell that man how you feel since you talk soooo much about him!"

P.S. if you work for him, he vowed to ensure you will work and earn your pay from this day forth. If you want the book and E.D.X policies to stand out front...... that is exactly what your going to get come monday morning. no friends..... straight work!