Posted on 02/29/2008 12:33:46 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Utah allegedly used waterboarding on a member of his sales team to motivate staff, according to a lawsuit filed by an employee, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Chad Hudgens, a former salesman for Prosper, Inc., in Provo, Utah, alleges his manager, Joshua Christopherson, asked him to lie on a hill before he poured water from a gallon jug into Hudgens' mouth and nostrils as other sales staff held him down, the paper reports. "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 paper said the suit alleges. The lawsuit was filed in January. Company President Dave Ellis told the Salt Lake Tribune that the allegations were "sensationalized" and uncorroborated by co-workers regarding the May incident. "They just roll their eyes and say, 'This is ridiculous. ... That's not how it went down,'" Ellis told the paper. Hudgens' suit claims the manager "intentionally engaged in physically and emotionally abusive conduct" to punish workers who did not meet company performance goals, the paper said.
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Wow, this guy sure took stupid pills.
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... I got better.
If he had waterboarded him with a fifth of Jack Daniels, do you think he still would have sued?..../sarc
too easy.
My bad one was the job that I realized I had to quit when I was in the hospital (with severe abdominal pains, fever, vomiting) and about to undergo a CT scan — and realized that I was glad to be there instead of at work.
Good to see you again, too! How are you doing? :-)
This better be on an upcoming episode of “The Office”...It would fit soooo perfectly.
Gee, when I was in sales with the BIG CORPORATION, the threat of getting the axe was enough for most of us.
Spose the phrase “getting the axe” had a more sinister meaning at Prosper?
Egad!
Not to disrupt your thread, but I’m doing great. I went through a rough patch for a while, but I couldn’t be better now. :)
Hope you’re doing well!
HA! Will make a great T-Shirt!
Yes, but the employees’ first clue should have been that the company is owned by the Bin Laden Group. ;-D
I’m glad things are great for you now! And I’m *very* well, too. :-D
What have you been up to these days?
I used to have a boss who liked to make me cry and then he’d say, “Look Donna, you and I have worked well together. We can get this done.....” I’d just mop up and agree with him.
Can I sue?
I like it.
This sounds like the Roadrunner (beep beep) /Wiley E Coyote school of management.
I wonder if they also dropped any ACME anvils on people?
This “motivational coaching business” sounds like a cult.
Good to hear! I’ll drop you a line over the weekend, but I’m getting ready to head out shortly.
Well, I could understand this if it was a surfboard or skateboard company or a swim suit company. You know, a little training for those big waves and wipeouts.
Toughen up those monkeys!
He would of sued before but, it took people like Sen. J. Sydney McQueeg to teach him what it was called.
Have a great weekend! :-)
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