Re: The slippery slope in action....

["Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

Yes, their motto was:
 
"The beatings continue until the morale improves."
 
Seems to not have been that effective. 
 
Of course, waterboarding isn't tortue anyway, so it's all good...right?
 
 
Alex
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Subject: [funsec] The slippery slope in action....



http://www.sltrib.com/ci_8385103

 

Employee's suit: Company used waterboarding to motivate workers

By Erin Alberty
<mailto:ealberty () sltrib com?subject=Salt%20Lake%20Tribune:%20Employee%27
s%20suit:%20Company%20used%20waterboarding%20to%20motivate%20workers> 

Article Last Updated: 02/27/2008 07:13:46 PM MST

 

Posted: 7:14 PM- 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." 
    Prosper president Dave Ellis responded that the allegations amount
to "sensationalized" versions of events that have gone uncorroborated by
Hudgens' former coworkers. 
    "They just roll their eyes and say, 'This is ridiculous . . . That's
not how it went down,' " Ellis said. 
    The suit claims that Hudgens' team leader, Joshua Christopherson,
asked for volunteers in May for "a new motivational exercise," which he
did not describe. Hudgens, who was 26 at the time, volunteered in order
to "prove his loyalty and determination," the suit claims. 
    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. 

 

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