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<title>Our Next Corporate Retreat Will Be In Gitmo. (Trees And Things)</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/4/15/132752/669</link>
<description>His former bosses are calling it a "training incident" that went poorly.  Chad Hudgens calls it torture, enough to take his former employer to court over what happened.  His ex-employer is saying a). Chad voluntarily participated in the exercise, and b). &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/12/AR2008041201739.html">it really wasn't all that bad&lt;/a>.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:38:40 EST</pubDate>
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<title>MayorBob: That, sniff, was inspiring.</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/4/15/132752/669#7</link>
<description>I think you need to kick off that insurance shtick and go into mentoring. &#160;Or, at least you might want to think about delivering funeral orations.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:30:31 EST</pubDate>
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<title>JimmyHavok: Prosper is a bunch of scam artists</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/4/15/132752/669#6</link>
<description>They sell "mentoring?" Give me a break, they sell hot air, and their salespeople know it. &#160;That means Hudgens was a scam artist too, since he was quite willing to supervise a team selling hot air.&lt;p>&#10;Given that he's a scam artist, he's a pretty cheesy</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:33:31 EST</pubDate>
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<title>MayorBob: Prosper's New Company Motto:</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/4/15/132752/669#5</link>
<description>Win one for the dripper.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:11:12 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Lou: Big picture</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/4/15/132752/669#4</link>
<description>Hey, at least if Hudgens had died, he would have provided a valuable lesson to the other sales folks, who would have then gone out and sold more and then kept the wheels of this big ol' economy rolling. &#160;His death, in the service of capitalism, would </description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:00:33 EST</pubDate>
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<title>MayorBob: Re: Our Next Corporate Retreat Will Be In Gitmo.</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/4/15/132752/669#3</link>
<description>But the company has circled the wagons and they swear the manager is the nicest guy you could ever imagine, which leads me to a couple possibilities:&lt;p>&#10;&#10;&lt;ol>&#10;&lt;li value="1">Hudgens was not a very valued employee and was probably going to be let go anyway f</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:47:12 EST</pubDate>
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<title>postillion: Re: Our Next Corporate Retreat Will Be In Gitmo.</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/4/15/132752/669#2</link>
<description>It seems to me that whether or not it's legally "torture" doesn't matter. &#160;After all, the voluntary participant only found out that he what happened was "waterboarding" after talking about it with a friend. &#160;&lt;p>&#10;What matters, in my opinion, is th</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:02:05 EST</pubDate>
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<title>thefadd: Re: Our Next Corporate Retreat Will Be In Gitmo.</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/4/15/132752/669#1</link>
<description>Sounds pretty much like what some macho a-holes in sales would do. Ten grand seems like chump change for this kind of thing. If it's not really torture, they should just let Hudgens do it back to them. That'd be worth more than $10k to me.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:01:39 EST</pubDate>
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