Employee's suit: Company used waterboarding to motivate workers

[DS1]

:rofl:


A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Provo is accused of waterboarding an employee in front of his sales team to demonstrate that they should work as hard on sales as the employee had worked to breathe.

In a lawsuit filed last month, former Prosper, Inc. salesman Chad Hudgens alleges his managers also allowed the supervisor to draw mustaches on employees' faces, take away their chairs and beat on their desks with a wooden paddle "because it resulted in increased revenues for the company."

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Christopherson poured water from a gallon jug over Hudgens' mouth and nostrils - like the interrogation strategy known as "waterboarding" - and told the team members to hold Hudgens down as he struggled, the suit alleges.

"At the conclusion of his abusive demonstration, Christopherson told the team that he wanted them to work as hard on making sales as Chad had worked to breathe while he was being waterboarded," the suit alleges.

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_8385103



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Sales people are really weird

[Kittycat]

1. Is this a joke?

Holy Crap! I hope that guy goes to jail. WTF?

[Crabby Appleton]

2. Well, did it work? Are sales up?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. First thing I would have done was call 911

and tell them someone was trying to murder me. I'm aquaphobic as it is--doing something like this would have probably caused me to have a heart attack. What were these idiots thinking?

[bobbolink]

7. thinking? thinking is soooo last century.

All the "tough love" crap used on poor people the last 50 years or so and damaged psyches of those of us on the bottom rung has morphed into torture.

Maybe when the muddleclass gets their fill of it, things will start to become more human.

Or not.

It's not about thinking at all... it's that people are no longer capable of empathy.

We're now completely sociopathic.

[Earth_First]

4. The humor in this escapes me. n/t

[DS1]

6. I always find corporate tools trying to be hard core amusing

but that's just me, of course

[knitter4democracy]

9. Me too. I find this story horrifying.

No wonder he's suing. I hope he wins big.

[THUNDER HANDS]

5. ABC

thid prize is, YOU'RE FIRED!

[Clovis Sangrail]

8. 0.0

There some serious lack of information here.

Obviously something nasty went on and it goes all the way up to the president.
However, I'm really baffled that Hudgens stayed on for another 6 weeks after the waterboarding incident, and (supposedly) didn't complain about it until he left.

Ellis said no managers have said they saw the activities described in Hudgens' suit, and the employees reported they are "more along the lines of fun."
"It's voluntary, it's humorous, it's team and camaraderie-building," Ellis said.

That part really makes me think something is going on.

[slampoet]

10. Wouldn't it take you 6 weeks to get your things in order?

This is a person with a life in Utah.

Utah isn't one of those places where you have ordinary American job freedoms.

[lonestarnot]

11. Oh so it's not a crime to waterboard in Utah? They must need to keep all those wives in line.

[slampoet]

12. Stop bottom feeding. I was saying that even if there was NO problem anyone would need 6 weeks

to switch jobs in a conservative area like Utah.


Stop being a.......(whatever you thought i'd say since you are so fond of making things up)

[jmowreader]

14. I can just imagine this poor bastard's next job interview

"Why did you leave your previous job?"

'I was waterboarded.'

[Clovis Sangrail]

13. I honestly don't think so

but then again, I don't live in Utah.

Just saying... there's not enough information there for this to make sense.

:shrug:

[slampoet]

15. I guess you don't have a house payment or children.

MANY people aren't able to just leave their job with less than one paycheck of warning.

(I thought democrats understood that.)

[Clovis Sangrail]

17. no kids but I do have the house payment

First of all, I didn't suggest he should have immediately quit, just that it was odd he didn't do anything for 6 weeks.

I'd like to think I respect myself enough that were I to be waterboarded at work I would a) file a complaint with the department of labor or somebody so it was documented b) tell my boss or his boss exactly what happened and demand an apology and c) file assault charges against the people who held me down with the local police.

All that in the first day.

The job search would likely begin the next day.
;)

[sarcasmo]

16. Amerkia says it's A OK, so why not Corporate America.

Wait, they are one in the same. Kick and Nom.