Football Owner Fires Her Team

Not exactly a textbook case of how to handle a labor dispute by Jamie LaMunyon, owner of the Montgomery Maulers of the National Indoor Football League. She didn't like her players demanding back wages, so, she's fired the entire team.

The mass firings came after four players held a news conference threatening to not travel to a road game unless they were paid. LaMunyon says she'll field replacement players for the next game in Osceola, Florida, tomorrow, and if a player wasn't paid, she's sorry, but, ``that happens everywhere.''

- Maulers Axed: Owner Replacing Team (Montgomery Advertiser)

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  Spanking At The Workplace Not A Good Motivator You might want to check you employee handbook for clarification on inappropriate behavior. Apparently, getting a spanking in front of your coworkers can be considered embarrassing to some employees.

The spankings were a part of a voluntary team building program for the sales teams at Alarm One Inc., a home security company based in Anaheim, California, and were given to all workers indiscriminately--both male and female--along with wearing diapers, throwing pies and calling each other losers.

The spanking in question went to 53-year-old Janet Orlando, who quit her job after the exercise, alleging discrimination, assault, battery and infliction of emotional distress. She is suing for at least $1.2 million, and as her lawyer said in closing arguements:

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.

Alarm One officials ceased the practice in 2004, the year Orlando sued, after another employee complained of being injured, according to court records.

- Spanked employee seeks $1.2 million (CNN)  ¶ 11:23 AM 0 comments

  King Of All Media Now Missing 8-10 Million Followers Howard Stern made such a big commotion over leaving terrestrial airwaves of CBS Radio to be available exclusively on Sirius Satellite Radio, that he was sued by his former bosses at Viacom for using their medium to promote his exodus. The problem is, seems like nobody is winning in the end. Stern didn't sell to as many paying customers as he would have liked, and the two guys brought in to fill his shoes aren't living up to the half of hype they were supposed to share.

The self-proclaimed King of All Media once commanded a national audience of 12 million daily listeners before jumping to satellite in January. But since then, his kingdom has shrunk to a small fraction of that size. Meanwhile, the shock jock's main replacements thus far have failed to hold very much of the former flock.

There are somewhere between 8 million to 10 million radio listeners nationwide that don't want to pay satellite subscription fee and don't like the free replacements, David Lee Roth and Adam Corolla.

- Trying to Corral Stern's Lost Herd (LA Times)  ¶ 10:46 AM 0 comments