It sure doesn't seem like a "frivolous" lawsuit to me!
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - 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.
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How is that supposed to be camaraderie-building? I think it's more humilating than anything. I'm glad she won.
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Don't think you misunderstood... unless I did, too... but things can take
a long time to come to trial, and I think they can wait almost a year to
even file!
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a long time to come to trial, and I think they can wait almost a year to
even file!
:-6
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Things like this can take ages to play out. Especially when you're dealing with a business. They have lawyers to delay and postpone and put off, hoping the victim will give up. I hope she sticks to her guns and gets every penny. Anyone ever tried some $h!t like that with me, they'd find that sign in a place they really didn't want it.
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Bullet's trial was a farce. Can I get an AMEN?????
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Bullet's trial was a farce. Can I get an AMEN?????
We won't be punished for our sins, but BY them.
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Janet can't lose. We have very strict laws in California against employers mistreating employees, and much of what she suffered could fall under the sexual harassment category. Zero tolerance of that in California. An alarm company yet! Besides being creepy, they were stupid. Doesn't matter if it was "voluntary." It's still against state law.
Look what the cat dragged in.
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telaquapacky wrote: Janet can't lose. We have very strict laws in California against employers mistreating employees, and much of what she suffered could fall under the sexual harassment category. Zero tolerance of that in California. An alarm company yet! Besides being creepy, they were stupid. Doesn't matter if it was "voluntary." It's still against state law.
I wonder if it's a British company, I knew a woman who worked for a security agency (British) that monitored prisoners that are serving time from their home. I always had thought the prison system did it, they don't it is contracted out. The British invented the ankle bracelets for prisoners. I didn't know that.:sneaky:
I wonder if it's a British company, I knew a woman who worked for a security agency (British) that monitored prisoners that are serving time from their home. I always had thought the prison system did it, they don't it is contracted out. The British invented the ankle bracelets for prisoners. I didn't know that.:sneaky: