Cheer up firm associates

Feeling overworked? Feel like going to work every day at the firm is like torture? Feel better. You could work for this motivational speaking company discussed in the Salt Lake City Tribune:

A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Provo is accused of waterboarding an employee in front of his sales team to demonstrate that they should work as hard on sales as the employee had worked to breathe.

In a lawsuit filed last month, former Prosper, Inc. salesman Chad Hudgens alleges his managers also allowed the supervisor to draw mustaches on employees' faces, take away their chairs and beat on their desks with a wooden paddle "because it resulted in increased revenues for the company." While the motivational coach responded to the law suit by stating, "It was meant to be a team-building exercise," and "everybody was . . . involved and enthusiastic."

However, the suit claims the motivational coach "intentionally engaged in physically and emotionally abusive conduct" to punish workers who did not meet company performance goals.

Who says a career in law is the worst way to go? You could have chosen to be a motivational speaker who has to be waterboarded to get motivated.