I Called Osha On My Boss Requesting To Be Anonymous And They Called The Store Asking For Me

The owner of the company I work at has been, for a very long time, extremely negligent about our conditions. There's mold in our store, and she has been informed about it several times, but she just sent her husband to paint over it. There's termites in the walls and in our untreated wood shelves, and she just sends her husband to do treatments, when there's termites literally everywhere, in our bags, in our bins... We do a lot of things that are not very "by the book" in terms of heavy lifting on tall ladders in open toed shoes, etc. And beyond that, the labor violations.... she doesn't allow us to have breaks, even after 10-12 hours, she contacts us at extremely unreasonable hours... But the incident that was the last straw to me was when she made my manager clean up a sick elderly woman's diarrhea in our changing room. It was a huge biohazard and so humiliating for my manager, who is a sweet woman just trying to do her job. No protective equipment or training and now she's thinking about getting a panel done because she's worried about potentially there being blood in the feces among other things. I had enough.

I reported my boss to OSHA. In my complaint, I specified to be kept anonymous, and when they called me to follow up, I said verbatim, "She isn't going to know I reported her, right? Because I live in fear of this woman."

He said no, she won't know. But he neglected to tell me that prior to calling me, he actually called the store, and asked for me by name. I have another manager who is basically the boss's bestie.... You have one guess who was working when he called. And we have Caller ID.

So I get a call from the owner now asking me why the Department of Labor was calling for me and asking for me by name. I just said I didn't know.

And then two days later, she shows up to clean up the mold, and I know now that she's gotten the notice from OSHA. And she MUST know now it was me.

I live in Florida. She cannot retaliate against me, right? I am so terrified to go into work tomorrow. I know this was the right thing, one of my coworkers just had their doctor request a mold screening for her because she's been getting unexplained rashes. But the right thing.... still sucks and I was hoping she wouldn't know it was me. I am so poor and this job is the only thing keeping me afloat.