Since when is there no spanking at work? Did I miss a memo?

[underpants]

"Get a life" applies here. Some people are taking this work thing WAY to seriously.

Calif. Woman Spanked at Work Sues for $1.2M

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060427/ap_on_re_us/spanking_trial_5

FRESNO, Calif. - Lawyers for a woman who was spanked in front of her co-workers as part of what her employer said was a camaraderie-building exercise asked a jury Wednesday for at least $1.2 million for the humiliation she claimed to have suffered.


Janet Orlando, 53, quit her job at the home security company Alarm One Inc. in Fresno and sued, alleging discrimination, assault, battery and infliction of emotional distress.

Employees were paddled with rival companies' yard signs as part of a contest that pitted sales teams against each other, according to court documents. The winners poked fun at the losers, throwing pies at them, feeding them baby food, making them wear diapers and swatting their buttocks.


Lawyers for Alarm One, an Anaheim-based, 300-employee company, said the spankings were part of a voluntary program to build camaraderie and were not discriminatory because they were given to both male and female workers.

[mr_hat]

1. Sometimes at work, I'm naughty on purpose.

[xchrom]

2. excuse me, pardon me -- just passing through on my way to another thread.

[annabanana]

3. It doesn't sound like a place where I'd want to work....

And I sure as hell wouldn't encourage anyone I care about to work there either.

("fratpranks" my ass)

[underpants]

4. I agree

You think you are going to do WHAT?

There used to be (maybe still is) a "Worst Boss" award and the worst thing I ever heard coming out of that- a supposedly true story- was a boss who made his assistant take dictation while he was taking a crap in the men's room. He actually had a chair in there for her to sit on.

This is close.

[meegbear]

6. LOL!

I remember hearing the one about the boss who looked out his office window at a major snowstorm, commenting how it's not fit out there for man of beast, then sending his secretary out in it to get his lunch.

[Infomaniac]

5. Sounds like a GOP Convention to me

Employees were paddled with rival companies' yard signs as part of a contest that pitted sales teams against each other, according to court documents. The winners poked fun at the losers, throwing pies at them, feeding them baby food, making them wear diapers and swatting their buttocks.

Yup, that sounds like a repuke get-together.

[TlalocW]

7. I think spanking is part of the Fish program

Not really.

TlalocW

[TheFarseer]

8. Was this a real estate agency or a frat house?

They've got to expect someone to get pissed off about that kind of stuff. I still don't think they should get sued though.

[Libby2]

9. LOL!

[TAPat]

10. How about my former boss...

he made us listen to Rush 3 hours a day 5 days a week :grr:
I wanted to sue him but could find no precedence for "political stupidity suffering"

[beyurslf]

12. I am sure that created a hostile work environment. :)

[TAPat]

17. Yes, you would think that a situation like

that would add up to a hostile work environment case!
I felt like it did, but the law didn't agree with me :(
They pulled alot of other crap too (gender discrimination for example) and I did speak to some attorneys but they all declined because the company was very small, very in debt - not deep enough pockets...
The irony of the thing is that I was employed with them as a Paralegal :spray:

[formerrepuke]

11. Sounds like an episode of "The Office"...............n/t

[MadHound]

13. The article states that this was voluntary

Who in the hell would volunteer to be degraded like this? Sounds to me like it was announced in a general way, without mentioning that spanking was involved.

Frankly I feel sorry for anybody anywhere that tried to spank me, I'd take that sign, shove it down their throat, and then sue their ass off.

It seems more and more that corporations are feeling free to insult, degrade and humiliate their workers. Welcome to the new corporate paradigm:eyes:

[annabanana]

14. ~sure~ it was "voluntary"

I'm sure the boss never even noticed who "opted out" of this little s&m exercise ....

[Shipwack]

15. Of course it was "voluntary"...

You either participated, or you were fired... or suffered on your evaluations for "not being a team player".

[DaveJ]

16. $1.2 Million is Way too Much

What is she trying to drive the company out of business just because they made a mistake? This type of thing makes businesses paranoid about lawsuits and then implement rules that make all of our lives a boring disgrace.

How can she justify asking that much? Does she expect to be compensated for 10 or 20 years of work? Even if she felt she had to quit because of this event, if she is good in her field she would be able to work for another company. Or better yet start she could start her own business, lose everything after she gets sued by some other sensitive employee.

[underpants]

18. MAybe the company should have been so concerned about this

and there wouldn't be any doubt about them going out of business.

GASP perish the thought.

"the market" has no ceiling but it has no floor either. History is littered with companies that didn't make it.