Just when I’ve spent some time (and posts) thinking about the conditions of white collar work and how it interacts with current political regimes, something like this happens that just brings it all together (h/t theamericanscene). Neoliberalism, meet neoconservatism:
PROVO, Utah — No one really disputes that Chad Hudgens was waterboarded outside a Provo office park last May 29, right before lunch, by his boss.
There is also general agreement that Hudgens volunteered for the “team-building exercise,” that he lay on his back with his head downhill, and that co-workers knelt on either side of him, pinning the young sales rep down while their supervisor poured water from a gallon jug over his nose and mouth.
And it’s widely acknowledged that the supervisor, Joshua Christopherson, then told the assembled sales team, whose numbers had been lagging: “You saw how hard Chad fought for air right there. I want you to go back inside and fight that hard to make sales.”
That is not a joke – that really happened.
I bet Chad didn’t get coffee that day either.
Put that coffee down! Coffee’s for closers only!