David Musgrave "bossman" of Lonestar IT Director / Daseke Inc is a felon who committed fraud and wage theft. The very same morning (December 2nd 2019) that I sent my two weeks' notice I received a "goodbye" letter from Mr. Don Daseke (the CEO and Chairman of the Daseke parent company) essentially thanking me for the hard work and wishing me well on my way.
In fact, that very same morning at 8:00AM and another time at around 11:00AM I also received two separate messages from two different coworkers wishing me farewell and expressing their surprise that I was no longer with the company. I had told no one else that I had submitted a two weeks' notice.
After I sent my two weeks' notice, I was actually terminated without cause by Mr. David Musgrave (Lonestar IT Director) and I never once heard from Human Resources, nor upper management. Even though they all knew exactly how to contact me if desired.
The only response I received was a text message from one of the coworkers in the IT department asking what I wanted them to do with my personal mouse and personal keyboard that I had brought into my office during the course of my employment.
Basically, Mr. Musgrave fired me on the spot the moment he read/received the two week notice letter, and not only instructed HR to deduct the two Thanksgiving days that I should have gotten paid for, but also refused to pay me for the final two weeks that I would have worked. In point of fact, I later discovered that Musgrave contacted Matrix staffing (the same staffing agency that I was initially hired from) on the same morning of my two-week notice, immediately after the fired me without cause, and Matrix ended up posting an advertisement to replace my position on the SAME day that I gave my two-week notice!
Musgrave refused to pay me for the final two weeks, fired me on the spot without cause and did so immediately (minutes) after receiving the two week notice without first making any attempts to have a dialogue, and I was only notified of this by and through the CEO and Chairman of the Daseke parent company and via text messages from my coworkers in IT department asking me how they were to dispose of my personal belongings.
Musgrave the same day instructed Matrix staffing company to search for my replacement and an ad was put out in the public arena looking for my replacement the same day I submitted my two weeks' notice. Not only did Musgrave refuse to pay me for the final two weeks, but in point of fact he committed fraud and theft of wages by maliciously instructing HR to retroactively deduct my two days of Thanksgiving pay and also my accrued PTO.
David Musgrave "bossman" of Lonestar IT Director / Daseke Inc is a felon who committed fraud and wage theft. The very same morning (December 2nd 2019) that I sent my two weeks' notice I received a "goodbye" letter from Mr. Don Daseke (the CEO and Chairman of the Daseke parent company) essentially thanking me for the hard work and wishing me well on my way.
In fact, that very same morning at 8:00AM and another time at around 11:00AM I also received two separate messages from two different coworkers wishing me farewell and expressing their surprise that I was no longer with the company. I had told no one else that I had submitted a two weeks' notice.
After I sent my two weeks' notice, I was actually terminated without cause by Mr. David Musgrave (Lonestar IT Director) and I never once heard from Human Resources, nor upper management. Even though they all knew exactly how to contact me if desired.
The only response I received was a text message from one of the coworkers in the IT department asking what I wanted them to do with my personal mouse and personal keyboard that I had brought into my office during the course of my employment.
Basically, Mr. Musgrave fired me on the spot the moment he read/received the two week notice letter, and not only instructed HR to deduct the two Thanksgiving days that I should have gotten paid for, but also refused to pay me for the final two weeks that I would have worked. In point of fact, I later discovered that Musgrave contacted Matrix staffing (the same staffing agency that I was initially hired from) on the same morning of my two-week notice, immediately after the fired me without cause, and Matrix ended up posting an advertisement to replace my position on the SAME day that I gave my two-week notice!
Musgrave refused to pay me for the final two weeks, fired me on the spot without cause and did so immediately (minutes) after receiving the two week notice without first making any attempts to have a dialogue, and I was only notified of this by and through the CEO and Chairman of the Daseke parent company and via text messages from my coworkers in IT department asking me how they were to dispose of my personal belongings.
Musgrave the same day instructed Matrix staffing company to search for my replacement and an ad was put out in the public arena looking for my replacement the same day I submitted my two weeks' notice. Not only did Musgrave refuse to pay me for the final two weeks, but in point of fact he committed fraud and theft of wages by maliciously instructing HR to retroactively deduct my two days of Thanksgiving pay and also my accrued PTO.
From the very beginning Mr. Musgrave hired me on with knowingly and provably false pretenses, and did not disclose these false pretenses to me until after I started working at Lonestar. He then intentionally lied to the rest of his team/company with regards to his actual motive of my hiring, and also coerced me to cover up for him in support of his intentionally false narratives.
I submit to you that these actions were not done to my benefit but for the sole benefit of himself. He wanted a token Asian sort of 'Uncle Yang' that he could control and manipulate and he thought by offering $90k for what amounted to a $65k job (the Lonestar network never had any routing protocols to administrate, no VLANs, etc) that he could not only buy my silence and loyalty but also pit me into a discriminatory environment that he himself fostered just for the purpose of keeping me on a tight lease and to maintain unethical leverage and control over me in order to compel me to do his bidding of helping him fire other individuals in the company such as Patrick Macik and Phillip Knox, and to retain "plausible-deniability" for himself so that after I became less useful to him he would be able to conveniently throw me under the bus relying on the preestablished heavy anti-Chinese sentiment in the Lonestar trucking company.
After the previous Vice President of IT the Mr. Pete Trotsky retired, the Lonestar company decided to get rid of the VP/CIO position in favor of reducing it to a IT Director role. This reduction meant that Musgrave, unlike his predecessor Pete Trotsky, would not be offered to sign 5 year lucrative contacts with the company and would instead be employed "at will" like everyone else.
Mr. Musgrave was the newcomer to the very established and tenured IT team, having held the reigns for only a few months unsupervised by Pete before making his first hire (myself) while the rest of the IT team had seniority of 12 years, 14 years, 20 years and 26 years... Musgrave felt that Patrick Macik (network administrator with the company for 14 years) was a threat to his own job security and that given the network administrator was the highest ranking position (essentially the right hand man or second chair) second only to the IT Director, he wanted to get rid of Macik to cover up his own technical inabilities and incompetencies and to bring in someone new that he could then more easily manipulate and control.
By hiring a token Asian into the position of Network Administrator Musgrave knew he would never have to worry about the “Chinaman” taking over his job because he stated the owner Tex Robbins would only allow white guys to such high positions at the company.
Many of Musgrave's actions when seen in the totality of full context of the bigger picture could be permissibly inferred as attempts to "Divide and Conquer" and to pit each team member against one another for example by offering raises with the quid quo pro of pledges of personal loyalty, by taking each team member individually to paid lunches one at a time and disclosing negative things about other team members to get them to distrust one another or to fight amongst themselves, and by abusing his managerial powers to write team members up to HR when there was no just cause and when these arbitrary and capricious acts were accompanied by ulterior and much more diabolical motives.
Musgrave would often become extremely angry whenever any of the IT members would even talk or discuss anything with anyone in the company other than himself, he effectively forced an embargo of communication in which everything had to go through himself, and did not tolerate any deviation and viewed anything else than absolute unquestioned loyalty as acts of insubordination.
Musgrave held this sort of leverage to keep everyone in 'check' and this combination of questionable behavior was so that he could retain power, and to mask and cover up for the fact that he was extremely insecure due to incompetence (Musgrave was a project manager and never served in CIO or IT Director roles) and to compensate for his total and complete lack of any and all technical skills (couldn't even log into his own laptop at times and had to call Rudy to fix it for him remotely).
Due in part to Musgrave's intentional deceptions and Musgrave's fostering of a manipulative and hostile work environment in which each team member was structurally pitted against one another by Musgrave's design; I, being the only Chinese American at the entire company, was repeatedly and constantly subjected to a plethora of unlawfully racists and discriminatory acts by others in the company, and indeed even by those in my very same IT department.
And during the course of my employment these discriminations often intensified instead of abating. When I reported these things to Musgrave he not only took no action, but essentially silenced me and forbade me to disclose this to anyone else nor to go above him. Musgrave took no actions to correct the situation and in fact intentionally made it worse by continuing to actively harbor and protect those who he knew to have committed these racists and discriminatory acts and by continuing to create these sort of adversarial environments in which he benefits by sowing divisiveness into the members of the team often at the expense of subjecting me to unlawful discrimination.
While pitting one another against each other is typically an interdepartmental dynamic or simple office politics, but when Musgrave new of these racists acts and other discriminatory acts being inflicted upon me based on race, color, national origin, etc and still did absolutely nothing then it rose to the level and threshold of violation of employment discrimination as it pertains to the Texas Civil Rights Division and the Federal EEOC.
When I reported all of this to the upper management at Lonestar LLC and the upper management at Daseke Inc I was immediately terminated without Cause without anyone first reaching out to get clarification or to have any sort of discussion or communication.
Lone Star Transportation Reviews
David Musgrave "bossman" of Lonestar IT Director / Daseke Inc is a felon who committed fraud and wage theft. The very same morning (December 2nd 2019) that I sent my two weeks' notice I received a "goodbye" letter from Mr. Don Daseke (the CEO and Chairman of the Daseke parent company) essentially thanking me for the hard work and wishing me well on my way.
In fact, that very same morning at 8:00AM and another time at around 11:00AM I also received two separate messages from two different coworkers wishing me farewell and expressing their surprise that I was no longer with the company. I had told no one else that I had submitted a two weeks' notice.
After I sent my two weeks' notice, I was actually terminated without cause by Mr. David Musgrave (Lonestar IT Director) and I never once heard from Human Resources, nor upper management. Even though they all knew exactly how to contact me if desired.
The only response I received was a text message from one of the coworkers in the IT department asking what I wanted them to do with my personal mouse and personal keyboard that I had brought into my office during the course of my employment.
Basically, Mr. Musgrave fired me on the spot the moment he read/received the two week notice letter, and not only instructed HR to deduct the two Thanksgiving days that I should have gotten paid for, but also refused to pay me for the final two weeks that I would have worked. In point of fact, I later discovered that Musgrave contacted Matrix staffing (the same staffing agency that I was initially hired from) on the same morning of my two-week notice, immediately after the fired me without cause, and Matrix ended up posting an advertisement to replace my position on the SAME day that I gave my two-week notice!
Musgrave refused to pay me for the final two weeks, fired me on the spot without cause and did so immediately (minutes) after receiving the two week notice without first making any attempts to have a dialogue, and I was only notified of this by and through the CEO and Chairman of the Daseke parent company and via text messages from my coworkers in IT department asking me how they were to dispose of my personal belongings.
Musgrave the same day instructed Matrix staffing company to search for my replacement and an ad was put out in the public arena looking for my replacement the same day I submitted my two weeks' notice. Not only did Musgrave refuse to pay me for the final two weeks, but in point of fact he committed fraud and theft of wages by maliciously instructing HR to retroactively deduct my two days of Thanksgiving pay and also my accrued PTO.
David Musgrave "bossman" of Lonestar IT Director / Daseke Inc is a felon who committed fraud and wage theft. The very same morning (December 2nd 2019) that I sent my two weeks' notice I received a "goodbye" letter from Mr. Don Daseke (the CEO and Chairman of the Daseke parent company) essentially thanking me for the hard work and wishing me well on my way.
In fact, that very same morning at 8:00AM and another time at around 11:00AM I also received two separate messages from two different coworkers wishing me farewell and expressing their surprise that I was no longer with the company. I had told no one else that I had submitted a two weeks' notice.
After I sent my two weeks' notice, I was actually terminated without cause by Mr. David Musgrave (Lonestar IT Director) and I never once heard from Human Resources, nor upper management. Even though they all knew exactly how to contact me if desired.
The only response I received was a text message from one of the coworkers in the IT department asking what I wanted them to do with my personal mouse and personal keyboard that I had brought into my office during the course of my employment.
Basically, Mr. Musgrave fired me on the spot the moment he read/received the two week notice letter, and not only instructed HR to deduct the two Thanksgiving days that I should have gotten paid for, but also refused to pay me for the final two weeks that I would have worked. In point of fact, I later discovered that Musgrave contacted Matrix staffing (the same staffing agency that I was initially hired from) on the same morning of my two-week notice, immediately after the fired me without cause, and Matrix ended up posting an advertisement to replace my position on the SAME day that I gave my two-week notice!
Musgrave refused to pay me for the final two weeks, fired me on the spot without cause and did so immediately (minutes) after receiving the two week notice without first making any attempts to have a dialogue, and I was only notified of this by and through the CEO and Chairman of the Daseke parent company and via text messages from my coworkers in IT department asking me how they were to dispose of my personal belongings.
Musgrave the same day instructed Matrix staffing company to search for my replacement and an ad was put out in the public arena looking for my replacement the same day I submitted my two weeks' notice. Not only did Musgrave refuse to pay me for the final two weeks, but in point of fact he committed fraud and theft of wages by maliciously instructing HR to retroactively deduct my two days of Thanksgiving pay and also my accrued PTO.
David Musgrave Lonestar IT Director
From the very beginning Mr. Musgrave hired me on with knowingly and provably false pretenses, and did not disclose these false pretenses to me until after I started working at Lonestar. He then intentionally lied to the rest of his team/company with regards to his actual motive of my hiring, and also coerced me to cover up for him in support of his intentionally false narratives.
I submit to you that these actions were not done to my benefit but for the sole benefit of himself. He wanted a token Asian sort of 'Uncle Yang' that he could control and manipulate and he thought by offering $90k for what amounted to a $65k job (the Lonestar network never had any routing protocols to administrate, no VLANs, etc) that he could not only buy my silence and loyalty but also pit me into a discriminatory environment that he himself fostered just for the purpose of keeping me on a tight lease and to maintain unethical leverage and control over me in order to compel me to do his bidding of helping him fire other individuals in the company such as Patrick Macik and Phillip Knox, and to retain "plausible-deniability" for himself so that after I became less useful to him he would be able to conveniently throw me under the bus relying on the preestablished heavy anti-Chinese sentiment in the Lonestar trucking company.
After the previous Vice President of IT the Mr. Pete Trotsky retired, the Lonestar company decided to get rid of the VP/CIO position in favor of reducing it to a IT Director role. This reduction meant that Musgrave, unlike his predecessor Pete Trotsky, would not be offered to sign 5 year lucrative contacts with the company and would instead be employed "at will" like everyone else.
Mr. Musgrave was the newcomer to the very established and tenured IT team, having held the reigns for only a few months unsupervised by Pete before making his first hire (myself) while the rest of the IT team had seniority of 12 years, 14 years, 20 years and 26 years... Musgrave felt that Patrick Macik (network administrator with the company for 14 years) was a threat to his own job security and that given the network administrator was the highest ranking position (essentially the right hand man or second chair) second only to the IT Director, he wanted to get rid of Macik to cover up his own technical inabilities and incompetencies and to bring in someone new that he could then more easily manipulate and control.
By hiring a token Asian into the position of Network Administrator Musgrave knew he would never have to worry about the “Chinaman” taking over his job because he stated the owner Tex Robbins would only allow white guys to such high positions at the company.
Many of Musgrave's actions when seen in the totality of full context of the bigger picture could be permissibly inferred as attempts to "Divide and Conquer" and to pit each team member against one another for example by offering raises with the quid quo pro of pledges of personal loyalty, by taking each team member individually to paid lunches one at a time and disclosing negative things about other team members to get them to distrust one another or to fight amongst themselves, and by abusing his managerial powers to write team members up to HR when there was no just cause and when these arbitrary and capricious acts were accompanied by ulterior and much more diabolical motives.
Musgrave would often become extremely angry whenever any of the IT members would even talk or discuss anything with anyone in the company other than himself, he effectively forced an embargo of communication in which everything had to go through himself, and did not tolerate any deviation and viewed anything else than absolute unquestioned loyalty as acts of insubordination.
Musgrave held this sort of leverage to keep everyone in 'check' and this combination of questionable behavior was so that he could retain power, and to mask and cover up for the fact that he was extremely insecure due to incompetence (Musgrave was a project manager and never served in CIO or IT Director roles) and to compensate for his total and complete lack of any and all technical skills (couldn't even log into his own laptop at times and had to call Rudy to fix it for him remotely).
Due in part to Musgrave's intentional deceptions and Musgrave's fostering of a manipulative and hostile work environment in which each team member was structurally pitted against one another by Musgrave's design; I, being the only Chinese American at the entire company, was repeatedly and constantly subjected to a plethora of unlawfully racists and discriminatory acts by others in the company, and indeed even by those in my very same IT department.
And during the course of my employment these discriminations often intensified instead of abating. When I reported these things to Musgrave he not only took no action, but essentially silenced me and forbade me to disclose this to anyone else nor to go above him. Musgrave took no actions to correct the situation and in fact intentionally made it worse by continuing to actively harbor and protect those who he knew to have committed these racists and discriminatory acts and by continuing to create these sort of adversarial environments in which he benefits by sowing divisiveness into the members of the team often at the expense of subjecting me to unlawful discrimination.
While pitting one another against each other is typically an interdepartmental dynamic or simple office politics, but when Musgrave new of these racists acts and other discriminatory acts being inflicted upon me based on race, color, national origin, etc and still did absolutely nothing then it rose to the level and threshold of violation of employment discrimination as it pertains to the Texas Civil Rights Division and the Federal EEOC.
When I reported all of this to the upper management at Lonestar LLC and the upper management at Daseke Inc I was immediately terminated without Cause without anyone first reaching out to get clarification or to have any sort of discussion or communication.