Surviving the Workday

 I would like to file this under What the F***? but alas, we have no such tag.

Seems a supervisor at a “motivational coaching business” had some crazy ideas as to what exactly motivates people. He woke up one day and said “I know! Waterboarding!”

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.”

Regardless of whether or not Hudgens participated voluntarily in this exercise, as the company alleges, at some point in time, someone has to be the grownup here and say “Hey, wait a minute! This is stupid and harmful and I’m not going to participate in your shenanigans!”

This entry was posted by GhostGirl on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 3:18 pm and is filed under evidence of the decline of civilization You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.