Opinion ID: 2633435
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Heading: Location of Richards's Office

Text: Upon Richards's return from her leave of absence, Uhouse led Richards past her old officewhich remained intact, with all of her personal belongings stillinside to the back of a storage/layout kind of all-purpose junk room area where there was nothing but a rug, and pointed to the area, stating, This is your office. One of the engineers was asked to put a desk together for Richards; Richards found a telephone; and various coworkers and friends assisted Richards in furnishing and arranging her storage room office. Two days later, Richards returned to her old office. Another employee had moved into it. All of her personal items were gone. It took several weeks for her to regain her property. Even then, some of the items, such as design manuals and books, were missing. According to Richards, Davids remarked that Uhouse put Richards's office in the storage area because Uhouse thought Richards was milking the company and milking people because [Richards] had MS; that [Richards] was trying to get sympathy from people by asking for the computer; . . . [and that Uhouse] felt that the company was bending over backwards to let [Richards] in the door, and . . . was not going to do another thing for [Richards]. Davids suggested that Richards meet with Uhouse in an effort to improve their relationship. In the summer of 1990, after about six months in the storage area office, Richards was permitted to move into a new office in the water resources area of the building.