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Report: Employee Lawsuit Alleges Company Used Waterboarding to Motivate Workers
FOXNews.com ^ | 2.29.2008

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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To: JennysCool

Yep. Sort of like image consultants and other useless “careers.”


41 posted on 02/29/2008 1:07:21 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
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To: NYC GOP Chick

Thanks! Same to you.


42 posted on 02/29/2008 1:07:29 PM PST by Constitution Day
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To: NYC GOP Chick

So...did their sales improve?


43 posted on 02/29/2008 1:18:08 PM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Republic of Texas

Not if you’re into motiviational seminar stuff. :0D The firm I work for is driving us nuts with this stuff. Last seminar we had to bat a balloon back and forth to simulate team work (I walked out). The one after that we had to play with play doe, pipe cleaners and paper plates. Most of us are in our forties and fifties. I walked out of that, too.


44 posted on 02/29/2008 1:22:08 PM PST by freepertoo
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To: donna

One thing about America: You can sue ANYONE for ANYTHING!


45 posted on 02/29/2008 1:39:49 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

I’d much prefer waterboarding to some of the staff meetings at our company.


46 posted on 02/29/2008 1:55:37 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: JennysCool
This “motivational coaching business” sounds like a cult.

If you said that in the corporate environment,in regards to the motivational coaches your boss selected, you would be derided as being not very smart and not being a team player. The CEO can be buck naked and you have to go along with his delusion, if you want to remain a player.

So it is with the “motivational coaching business”.

Americans love a good cult now and then.

47 posted on 02/29/2008 2:01:27 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie
If you said that in the corporate environment,in regards to the motivational coaches your boss selected, you would be derided as being not very smart and not being a team player. The CEO can be buck naked and you have to go along with his delusion, if you want to remain a player.

Homey don't play that.

48 posted on 02/29/2008 2:13:51 PM PST by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but they’re really after folding money.)
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To: heywoodubuzzoff

You have provided my Freeper chuckle for the day. Thank you


49 posted on 02/29/2008 2:17:35 PM PST by proud2beconservativeinNJ ("In God We Trust")
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To: NYC GOP Chick

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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This works if the salespeople can convince customers. I advised my sales staff to show customers their wounds and cry during sales calls and beg for their business so that they could avoid further torture.


50 posted on 02/29/2008 3:04:44 PM PST by Joan Kerrey
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To: NYC GOP Chick

The newest step in the “Dynamic leadership model and employee motivation matrix”?


51 posted on 02/29/2008 3:05:49 PM PST by Rush4U (unnamed source)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

Oooooh! Waterboarding. Big f’n deal. I had to attend cultural sensitivity training - TWICE!


52 posted on 02/29/2008 3:26:57 PM PST by 43north (I hope we are around long enough to become a layer in the rocks of the future.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I hope my boss doesn’t see this!


53 posted on 02/29/2008 3:33:22 PM PST by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Rush4U

When they called him,
he got out of a van,
down by the river.

54 posted on 02/29/2008 3:34:08 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagon)
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To: JennysCool
If you said that in the corporate environment,in regards to the motivational coaches your boss selected, you would be derided as being not very smart and not being a team player. The CEO can be buck naked and you have to go along with his delusion, if you want to remain a player.

Homey don't play that.

Sorry, but it's true.

55 posted on 03/01/2008 4:20:08 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: KoRn
I've got to try this on the next student I catch cheating.


56 posted on 03/01/2008 8:04:28 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Oh, I know it’s true. I’m just lucky enough not to have to play that game.


57 posted on 03/01/2008 9:30:46 AM PST by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but they’re really after folding money.)
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