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http://www.chicagotribune.com/search/trb/sns-ap-spanking-trial,0,2789552.story
FRESNO, Calif. -- Lawyers for a woman who was spanked in front of her co-workers as part of what her employer said was a camaraderie-building exercise asked a jury Wednesday for at least $1.2 million for the humiliation she claimed to have suffered.
Janet Orlando, 53, quit her job at the home security company Alarm One Inc. in Fresno and sued, alleging discrimination, assault, battery and infliction of emotional distress.
Employees were paddled with rival companies' yard signs as part of a contest that pitted sales teams against each other, according to court documents. The winners poked fun at the losers, throwing pies at them, feeding them baby food, making them wear diapers and swatting their buttocks.
"No reasonable middle-aged woman would want to be put up there before a group of young men, turned around to show her buttocks, get spanked and called abusive names, and told it was to increase sales and motivate employees," her lawyer, Nicholas "Butch" Wagner, said in his closing argument.
Lawyers for Alarm One, an Anaheim-based, 300-employee company, said the spankings were part of a voluntary program to build camaraderie and were not discriminatory because they were given to both male and female workers.
"This is being done for one reason and one reason only -- money," said K. Poncho Baker, the company's lawyer.
Alarm One officials ceased the practice in 2004, the year Orlando sued, after another employee complained of being injured, according to court records.
Posted : 27/04/2006 10:56 am
http://www.chicagotribune.com/search/trb/sns-ap-spanking-trial,0,2789552.story
the spankings were part of a voluntary program
Having spent 32 years in the Corporate workplace, I can tell you with authority that nothing in the American work place is voluntary.
Employees were paddled with rival companies' yard signs as part of a contest that pitted sales teams against each other, according to court documents. The winners poked fun at the losers, throwing pies at them, feeding them baby food, making them wear diapers and swatting their buttocks.
This is the exactly the typical shit that the trash that runs companies and corporations in the US constantly dreams up. These things started sometime in the early to mid eighties. Fortunately for me, by that time I was senior enough to refuse to participate in any of it.
If this happened to any woman in my family, I would track down the fat waddling corporate pig who did it, hang him upside down, duck tape his mouth shut and skin him.
Before you pass judgment on this woman---I have seen worse, and with both men and women. I have witness very few men or women with the courage to refuse.
To my credit, I was fired from my first engineering job for taking a chair and beating the crap out of a corporate vice president at a meeting with about 50 engineers and executives. He called me a 'son of a bitch,' which didn't bother me too much. I then called him a 'son of a bitch.' He started screaming that he was a VP and I was an engineer, and he could call me anything he wanted. I picked up a chair and beat him to the floor, before I was stopped. Thinking of it still makes me smile. Yes, I was arrested, but the charges were eventually dropped.
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Posted : 27/04/2006 11:51 am
To my credit, I was fired from my first engineering job for taking a chair and beating the crap out of a corporate vice president at a meeting with about 50 engineers and executives. He called me a 'son of a bitch,' which didn't bother me too much. I then called him a 'son of a bitch.' He started screaming that he was a VP and I was an engineer, and he could call me anything he wanted. I picked up a chair and beat him to the floor, before I was stopped. Enkidu
.. that makes my day! You must've been the hot topic around the water-cooler for a while after that. I wonder why I've never seen a 'Dilbert' cartoon showing anything like this?
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Posted : 27/04/2006 1:15 pm
Adults acting as immature as children. That is the thing that is humiliating here.
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Posted : 27/04/2006 4:55 pm
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I know there are some sororities/fraternities that spank their pledges, but I've never before heard of a situation like that mentioned in the article.
Posted : 27/04/2006 5:02 pm