Company uses waterboarding as a "motivational technique"

[wsuffa]

I'll post this here for now, with a hair trigger to move it to spin if it turns political...

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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[Pi1otguy]

Talk about hostile workplace.

 

[KennyFlys]

Beatings will continue until morale improves!

 

[nddons]

I'll bet he'll never volunteer for anything ever again!

 

[mikea]

Oh, man. Don't give the company any ideas. We get tortured enough as it is.

 

[nddons]

Doesn't this sound like a good script for The Office? That's one of my favorite shows.

 

[mikea]

Doesn't this sound like a good script for The Office? That's one of my favorite shows.

I can't watch either version. It's way too much like the real job.

 

[gprellwitz]

I can't watch either version. It's way too much like the real job.

That and Dilbert!

 

[skyflyer8]

Doesn't this sound like a good script for The Office? That's one of my favorite shows.

Mine too, the American version, darn the writers strike though!

 

[astanley]

I'll post this here for now, with a hair trigger to move it to spin if it turns political...



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Man, I've done some screwed up, lacks-sense crap for work in the past. I'm pretty sure I'd up and quit if they tried to do this to me...

Cheers,

-Andrew

 

[Ghery]

That and Dilbert!

Dilbert isn't a comic strip. Dilbert is a documentary.