A saleswoman who was spanked in front of her co-workers as part of what her employer said was a camaraderie-building exercise will get $500,000 in compensatory damages.

A Fresno jury agreed with Janet Orlando on Friday that she suffered sexual harassment and sexual battery during the paddlings overseen by the security alarm company she worked for before quitting two years ago.

Jurors awarded her damages for emotional distress, pain, suffering, past economic losses and future medical costs. They also agreed that Anaheim-based Alarm One acted with malice, but they rejected Orlando's claim that the spankings amounted to assault.

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The jury is still considering punitive damages.

Lawyers for Orlando had asked for at least $1.2 million.

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 on Wednesday.

Lawyers for Alarm One 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.

eh.

i can see where she's coming from, though. if a coworker tried to spank me, he'd find himself either missing digits, or having broken bones. no one touches my posterior at work.

frivolous? hardly.

how would you like being 45 years old and being subjected to that kind of shit in a workplace? don't give me that bullshit about it being voluntary. if every single one of your coworkers volunteers and you don't, you are putting yourself in a bad political position at the office.

$500,000 is pretty shitty. attorney fees will eat up 1/3 of that cost at least. other expenses will dig into that money too. depositions, interrogatories, various discovery expenses... witnesses, time off. etc.

that $500,000 is really more like $250,000.

assuming she had a decent position at her work place, $250,000 is like five or 6 years of work. however she's easily lost alot more then that, especially if she had a career going with that corporation.

I doubt she was truly forced to do it.

like i said, the program is 'voluntary.'

but social pressures at the office would probably make it mandatory, unless you don't mind giving up the next promotion.

like i said, the program is 'voluntary.'

but social pressures at the office would probably make it mandatory, unless you don't mind giving up the next promotion.

EXACTLY. when you consider Sales and its highly competitve nature as an industry, she'd be an idiot not to succumb.

it doesn't mean paddling is something that should happen in most workplaces. the behavior is abhorrent, and would get people fired in most situations.

Well spank my ass and call me a rich bitch

I understand that certain individuals have been spanked with a heavy bible.......

don't you think it's a tad hypocritical when your avatar phrase is "bite my ass and like it"? lol

Don't u think it's hypocritical when u preach hypocracy and when u practice it?


geeezus

what's his name?

oh gosh :rofl:

I can understand the gay yellow bicycle being an insult, but how so shooting squirrels with a pellet gun?

I like not getting the bubonic plague, thanks.

lol

maybe no one wants to, either ;)

explain why all my exes get pissed when they find out i'm engaged. ;)

don't you think it's a tad hypocritical when your avatar phrase is "bite my ass and like it"? lol

this isn't the workplace, therefore it can't possibly be hypocritical. furthermore, that phrase is not literal.

10 gauge is more effective :)

If you need a 10 gauge to hit a squirrel, you have really, really shitty aim.

If you need a 10 gauge to hit a squirrel, you have really, really shitty aim.
:werd:

.223 or .17HMR is good enough for me. (refrence the easter in wyoming thread)

it means alot to be called a hypocrite from some fat chinese porn freak who rides a gay yellow bicycle and shoots squirrels with a pellet gun

:roll:

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Not rip-off, certified double

Ask 'im yourself, if you need to :D

if I'm ever a mod, you better watch out, porno chinkman

U a mod?

don't know whether to cry or laugh.......

that's not the point

I don't like to bury varmints (or eat them) :)


u just like to turn them into red mists so that it can contaminate a greater area than to keep their carcass together for burial?

revelations of the rodent kind.

Somewhere a village is missing it's idiot.......

Not rip-off, certified double

Ask 'im yourself, if you need to :D


nice one........ u should hand ur mod powers to YZF for a day.

and keep it in the christian sextion....

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^ barf.... zomg