A first review cleared her - a second one cost her the job, the filing says

A former Ford manager says Ford fired her over a night she cannot remember, after someone allegedly slipped a date-rape drug into her drink.

The worker spent nearly 11 years at Ford Motor Company, most recently as a senior product development manager. In a complaint filed July 2, 2026 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, she says she had strong performance reviews and no history of discipline before the fall of 2025.

Then came the night of September 12, 2025. According to the filing, she attended a concert at Pine Knob Amphitheater and was handed a drink that unknowingly contained GHB. She says she remembers nothing after drinking it and did not drive herself home. Her company-leased vehicle was left with minor damage in the parking lot, and the complaint says, on information and belief, that other cars were allegedly damaged as well.

She was ticketed at first. But the complaint is emphatic that alcohol was never treated as a factor, and that she was never charged with anything alcohol-related. All the charges were later dismissed, the filing says, except a misdemeanour for failure to report - a citation that carries zero points on her licence.

For HR professionals, the sequence that follows is the point. The worker reported the incident to Ford around September 16, 2025. The company ran its own investigation, the complaint says, and in October told her it had concluded...

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