On May 6, I quit working at Buffalo ReUse, the community organization I co-founded with Michael Gainer in 2006, because I could no longer tolerate the abuse and hostility from certain Board members, namely Alison Mueller and Franklin Redd, and the complete lack of a positive response when I asked the Board President, Vince Kuntz, to help me resolve the problem. I was denied unemployment benefits because of a “voluntary quit”. I appealed that determination and finally, after much drama, was granted benefits this week by an Administrative Law Judge.
