A morbidly obese Samsung executive claims his manager relentlessly fat-shamed him in front of colleagues, belittling him with cruel remarks about his “big ass,” as well as, among other things, repeated suggestions that he “use ‘chemo’ as a weight-loss technique.”
Joseph DeRosa, a former senior director of sales at the South Korean tech behemoth’s U.S. Networks Division, says the experience was “humiliating and hurtful,” particularly because his boss was well aware that DeRosa “lost his mother to cancer and the side effects of chemotherapy treatment,” according to a newly filed federal lawsuit reviewed by The Independent.
