The Unfair Workforce Not for employees

So I was recently fired from a job. I worked at this place for a little a year. During that year I saw a President and Vice President belittle people, scream and cuss at the staff, harass people for their sexual preference, threaten physical violence on their employees, and throw things at their employees. Witnessing all of this over a year and crying myself to sleep at night was what I was left with each day. I was verbally beaten day everyday. They used the fact that I am on probation to remind me that I'm not worth human decency. Other employees, not related to them have witnessed all this too. Yet they will not come forward because they either get paid well and have been there forever or they are scared of losing their jobs.

When I filed my unemployment claim, I was told I was denied because I was fired. During the interview, I played the recording of the Owner/President saying he didn't care if I was threatened or that I'd had things thrown at me, I wasn't being a team player. During that interview this same guy said that I yelled at his son in front of customers, which a blatant lie. Yet I'm the one who gets to suffer because he's a business owner and Texas protects them tso they can do what they want to do to employees.

I asked a lawyer what my options were and was told since they do not have more than 16 employees, there is nothing they've done that he can file against. All I can do is file a EEOC claim and that was it. NICE

So since I was fired for no longer taking the abuse and standing up against them, I lose benefits. But in the beginning, I was told not to quit, because then I would have no case...but wait..I still don't have a case? So I suffered through a year of abuse, watching others be abused, just so they can have the last laugh and keep on doing whatever they want?

Texas needs to protect their workers from Small Business owners like this! I have had a PERFECT track record at EVERY employer I've ever had until them,so I know it wasn't just me. The Owner has his 3rd wife and 2 sons working there. He would scream and cuss at all of them for anything. He would see his sons harass a gay employee about his status and do nothing! When that employee tried to talk to him about it, he told him "quit throwing a fairy fit"! That employee was harassed until he was made so miserable he quit. They fired a lady whose mother was in the hospital because she called in to take care of her one day. They did this because son#1 didn't like her.

They have other employees that have worked there for years. These employees are loyal because they have been allowed to do drugs, be jailed, do other stuff and not be fired. They have had more conduct reports written on them in 2 months than I had over 14 months there, but they have never been fired. They currently employ people that show up high to work every day. They have had over 10 people hired then fired or quit in less than a year. And they continue to state it's everyone else that has a problem.

I don't know what to do! There is so much injustice here, yet I'm told they are untouchable. When I did file unemployment and fought it, the owner went so far as to call my probation officer and flat out lie to him, trying to get me in trouble with the law! You would think he'd just leave me alone, but he knows that I have him recorded saying things that he knows he shouldn't have said. Why else would he go to the trouble of trying to harass me through my probation officer? I wish there was something that would hold this employer responsible for their actions.