Best Employer ever: Boss uses waterboarding to keep staff in line

[CptStern]

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."


Christopherson led the sales team to the top of a hill near the office and told Hudgens to lie down with his head downhill, the suit claims. Christopherson then told the rest of the team to hold Hudgens by the arms and legs.

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.

lol that's crazy/awesome, what's even crazier is that people would still continue to work there

http://www.sltrib.com/portal/ci_8385103?_loopback=1

 

[Cormeh]

I realise we all have bills to pay, but when you read about this level of abuse from some twat manager I often wonder just how desperate you have to be to stay.

 

[Solaris]

What a brilliant man.

 

[Krynn72]

Wait.... you're saying this isn't normal?

oh....

 

[Glirk Dient]

AWESOME! I want to work there...as a manager of course. I would get to abuse people below me all day, that job would never get boring! I could spend all of my free time thinking of clever new ways to torture my employees. I would take that job even if it didn't pay!

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

I wonder why anybody works ther-

Oh.

 

[Eejit]

The guy probably deserved it.

 

[SimonomiS]

Ohhh! So that's how hard he wants us to work!

I never would have understood without that useful demonstration.

 

[Tyguy]

free water, whats the problem

 

[Pulse]

What a perve.

 

[Sulkdodds]

It's like something out of a Gen X novel.

 

[<RJMC>]

I wonder what he do to the womans

 

[kirovman]

Well, the bottom line is profit, so whatever gets you there.

Waterboarding isn't even torture* anyway, so it wouldn't hold up in any court without serious ramifications.

I'm considering cutting of the genitals of my sub-ordinates and burning them under their noses, so that deadlines get met.

*So says the administration.

 

[Raziaar]

What the ****... why would people put up with any of that shit? I'd quit after I beat the ever living shit out of the supervisor.

 

[<RJMC>]

holy shit stern post count is 29,997!

 

[Raziaar]

holy shit stern post count is 29,997!

The end is nigh.

 

[Glirk Dient]

Actually the media has it wrong. The guy was a terrorist, and the manager was trying to extract information from him. So it's OK!

 

[MJ12]

INEVITABLE

 

[DreamThrall]

lol that's crazy/awesome, what's even crazier is that people would still continue to work there

http://www.sltrib.com/portal/ci_8385103?_loopback=1

I realise we all have bills to pay, but when you read about this level of abuse from some twat manager I often wonder just how desperate you have to be to stay.

What the ****... why would people put up with any of that shit? I'd quit after I beat the ever living shit out of the supervisor.

Enough explanation for me imo:

A supervisor at a motivational coaching business