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2004-08-03 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve 2004-08-03 12:55:06 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...My prediction: PFC Snookums will do twelve months at a minimum security stockade and recieve a DD. They're saving the big guns for Graner and Frederick.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-08-03 2:15:02 PM|| 2004-08-03 2:15:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I still want to see Janis "I'm being persecuted" Karpinski in the dock over this. In civilian life, Karpinski gets paid (a lot) basically to haze people on behalf of business; that is, she conducts "high-stress" motivational seminars for junior executives. This reportedly includes some pretty degrading treatment as well as an element of new-age hokum.

This kind of thing has a following in management circles, where unions and the law will tolerate it.

I happened to witness the hazing of new employees at a local call-center last year. (I was there with a friend who was a major client and, ever curious, I happened to wander off on my own.) In one class for new-hires, people who made mistakes were forced to dance in front of the class. One who refused was fired on the spot. In another, trainees were forced to eat a jar of baby food if they made mistakes. The instructor had a whole stack of them on his desk. He joked that the clerks at Sam's thought he had quadruplets from the amount of baby-food he bought. I also saw security guards screaming at and threatening employees. I was told that this "high-impact" treatment was designed to weed out those who could not tolerate abusive callers. The union (CWA)apparently went along with it because new-hires are not members and are not eligible to join for 3 months. I suggested to one supervisor that this kind of behavior might well be against the law. VIP hanger-on or not, I was asked to leave and was escorted by a couple of the scowling security goons (all of whom had goatees for some reason).
A week later, a local media outlet got hidden camera video of these goings-on, the security goons and the baby-food punishment especially, but the story was never broadcast.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-08-03 3:35:27 PM|| 2004-08-03 3:35:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I think Lynndie would look downright cute breaking rocks in Levenworth's Just Following Orders section, actually.

Posted by eLarson 2004-08-03 3:46:09 PM|| 2004-08-03 3:46:09 PM|| Front Page Top

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