Guilty! Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Posted on 03/10/2021 3:05:39 PM PST by BenLurkin
According to the recent lawsuit, the seminar held by Alive Seminars in 2019 “quickly devolved into psychological abuse,” with instructors yelling and belittling attendees.
Cellphone use was prohibited, there was no clock in the room, and the doors and windows were covered with black cloth during the seminar...
One activity required participants to pretend they were on a sinking ship, where only four would survive.
On July 13, the seminar’s third day, Spargifiore was made to strip down to her underwear in front of strangers and coworkers as part of what was billed as a trust-building exercise...
... taking turns yelling about “their inner struggles until everyone else in the group ‘believed’ them,”...
By that afternoon, Spargifiore had had enough and called her mother to pick her up...
Ramirez described the seminar as “really traumatic,” with people vomiting “left and right.”
“That’s the kind of thing that happened because of tremendous psychological pressure,” he added.
Panda Restaurant Group, the chain’s parent company, said in a statement it was taking the allegations “very seriously” and conducting an investigation.
The company said that it had no ownership stake in Alive Seminars and had never required employees to participate in the workshops or used them as an ultimatum for promotion.
Spargifiore is also the sole named plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Panda Restaurant Group, filed in December 2019.
Kitty Szeto, a plaintiffs’ attorney in the class action, said the Alive seminars were required to advance in the company.
“You had to do the training and basically, if you survived it, you would be considered for a promotion,” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Sounds a lot like a Qanon meeting.
Guilty! Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Sounds like EST training back in the 80’s.
Sounds like cult indoctrination.
Hey, Spargifiore idiot: don’t you know how to say NO?
Similar, yes.
I imagine whoever had to see her in her skivvies was also traumatized...
“really traumatic,” with people vomiting “left and right.”
Reminds me of those old EST Seminars only with a heaping helping of abuse added.
Uber snowflake.
Your full of Crap! Who do you work for?
Sounds like one of those Great Leap Forward “struggle sessions.”
Meanwhile some cult is getting training on inventory management and how to cash out the register and submit credit card transactions at closing time.
General Cho woulda done it; no chicken he.
Did you even read the article?
Maybe she stumbled into a NXIVM cult meeting??
That would be hilarious.
*You're.
Who do you work for?
The English language apparently.
By an odd coincidence, that’s what happened to me the last time I ate at a Panda Express.
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