Spanking in the Workplace?

[DVS]

Wondering what alarm companies might need a well educated, intelligent, university teacher? Perhaps I could teach their customers how to use the alarm systems and every time I made a mistake!..............

Fleure

What an AMAZING coincidence! It just so happens that I'm starting a company and what's even more AMAZING is it's an alarm company! Can you believe it? How strange is that?

Oh, and I'm going to need someone to teach the customers how to use the system and I've been struggling with the type of person I should hire for that position. But, after reading your post, I can't believe how perfect it would be to hire a well educated and intelligent university teacher for the job. It's such a perfect idea!

Oh, but there's one little company policy that will be strictly enforced. But, I really don't think there will be a problem. If you come see me, I'll show you how the boss will take charge and explain...the policy.

In a very "Donald" style, "You're hired!"

 

[Private_Label]

There are so many reasons someone would be passive and go along with something.

It may be that like my mother, she is very shy and didn't want to rock the boat (whistle blow) because she feared getting written up -as was mentioned in the article, the Supervisors were reported and never written up apparently while someone who had to go take care of an ill family member was - you know FMLA was written specifically to prevent that...

My mother is extremely shy and hates to be the one to rock the boat. She could never be a sales person because she wouldn't be able to sell, but she has been in situations where she was practically ordered by her bosses to go out on dates with their clients (this was in the early 70's folks), not paid for the time she was out with the client, and while the supervisors didn't mention sex, it was strongly implied she should show the client a good time. Why? Because she was a young divorcee with children and needed the job to support her children. (note me gritting my teeth here.) Eventually she did leave because of this, it made her very uncomfortable at work. Which is saying a lot, because the interview process must be painful for someone who is shy and has trouble speaking to strangers. So the shy person endures an uncomfortable situation a while longer than someone who didn't have that phobia.

Much the same way, given the corporate atmosphere, the woman in the news story didn't feel that speaking up would solve the problem, but rather would lead to her losing her job for attempting to get the company to prevent the harassment. Like my mother, she put up with it as long as she was able, because she needed the job and wasn't prepared to leave it and go look for a new one.

The fact that the harassment was allowed to continue until an employee claimed workman's comp for a physical injury shows that these little punishments were not just the humiliation aspect, but also painful.

While salespeople get doors slammed in their faces a fair amount of the time, which must be painful, I don't think spanking or other public humiliation was listed in the job description when they were offered the position.

I don't know what I would do in that situation... my mind screams that I would refuse to participate in workplace humiliation, that I would refuse until my supervisor fired me, THEN I would go to the lawyer.

 

[DVS]

Not to toot my own horn here, but um...

I think the woman will win her case, but she will be found to have some guilt, because she didn't leave, initially. But, the result will be much worse for the company's pocketbook.

Associated Press...Woman spanked at work gets $1.7 million.

FRESNO, CA.
A jury awarded $1.7 million Friday to a woman who was spanked in front of her colleagues in what her employer called a camaraderie-building exercise.

The jury of six men and six women found that Janet Orlando, 53, was subjected to sexual harassment and seuxal battery when she was paddled two years ago at Alarm One Inc., a home security company in Fresno. The jury said that Orlando did not suffer from the seuxal assault, as she had alleged.

Jurors awarded Orlando $10,000 for economic loss, $40,000 for future medical costs, and $450,000 for emotional distress, pain and suffering.

they awareded her $1.2 million in punitive damages.

Orlando quit in 2004, less than a year after she was hired, saying she was humiliated in the camaraderie-building exercises.

Sales teams were encouraged to compete, and the losers were made fun of, forced to eat baby food, required to wear diapers and spanked with a rival company's yard signs, according to court documents.

Attorneys for the company said that Orlando and others took part in the exercises willingly. The company has since abandoned the practice.

In the trial, the company attorneys revealed that Orlando had sued a previous employer, also alleging sexual harassment.


I thought that last line in the article was very interesting. But, I guess it didn't sway the jury any. $1.7 million is quite a little bundle of cash.

 

[Blushing Bottom]

You're so smart. You'd make a bood boss. Perhaps I should come work for you.


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Not to toot my own horn here, but um...



Associated Press...Woman spanked at work gets $1.7 million.

FRESNO, CA.
A jury awarded $1.7 million Friday to a woman who was spanked in front of her colleagues in what her employer called a camaraderie-building exercise.

The jury of six men and six women found that Janet Orlando, 53, was subjected to sexual harassment and seuxal battery when she was paddled two years ago at Alarm One Inc., a home security company in Fresno. The jury said that Orlando did not suffer from the seuxal assault, as she had alleged.

Jurors awarded Orlando $10,000 for economic loss, $40,000 for future medical costs, and $450,000 for emotional distress, pain and suffering.

they awareded her $1.2 million in punitive damages.

Orlando quit in 2004, less than a year after she was hired, saying she was humiliated in the camaraderie-building exercises.

Sales teams were encouraged to compete, and the losers were made fun of, forced to eat baby food, required to wear diapers and spanked with a rival company's yard signs, according to court documents.

Attorneys for the company said that Orlando and others took part in the exercises willingly. The company has since abandoned the practice.

In the trial, the company attorneys revealed that Orlando had sued a previous employer, also alleging sexual harassment.


I thought that last line in the article was very interesting. But, I guess it didn't sway the jury any. $1.7 million is quite a little bundle of cash.