Ahrend v. Director, Employment Security Division

Wendell L. Griffen, Judge.

It is undisputed that the appellant, Jane Ahrend, voluntarily quit her work at the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission (“AIDC”). She had worked for the AIDC for seventeen years. For about eleven years her immediate supervisor was Rob Middleton, a boss in whom she confided and with whom she shared her frustrations about what she considered harassment from others within the AIDC. In 1988 or 1989, Middleton suggested, and the appellant began to receive, psychiatric help for her stress that was undisputedly job-related. The stress and the harassment appear to have…