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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Justin Rohrlich

Comcast boss made subordinates smash cream pies in faces of low-performing coworkers, lawsuit says

A former employee at an Xfinity-Comcast retail location in Connecticut is suing the company over claims underperforming workers were lashed to furniture while colleagues ambushed them with baked goods to the face – all at the behest of the store manager, who allegedly videotaped the monthly occurrences.

In a civil complaint filed last month in Meriden Superior Court and reviewed by The Independent, David Figueroa describes a “policy that the highest-ranked Retail Sales Consultant for the prior month was instructed by… the Comcast Store manager to tie the lowest-ranked sales consultant for the prior month to a chair in the back office and thereafter assault that person by violently smashing a cream pie in their face.”

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