# Employer arrested for SPANKING employees!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 10, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048 "2004-11-10T18:06:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/1 "2004-11-10T18:06:49Z")
[Oh Dear God](http://www.wftv.com/news/3905790/detail.html) Exactly how hard do you have to be for work to put up with this crap? And give me a break on “raised to respect authority” crap. I wonder if there was more going on at that shaved-ice place that made the employees fear for more than just their job. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/2 "2004-11-10T18:10:19Z")
Some doings are a transpiring up at the old ice shaving factory. ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/3 "2004-11-10T18:15:34Z")
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!! That was pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Blackacre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@Blackacre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackacre)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/4 "2004-11-10T18:20:26Z")
Wonder if they are still taking applications? =D Cheers! BA ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/5 "2004-11-10T18:22:11Z")
I wonder if part of the guy’s defense will involve the movie “Secretary.” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/6 "2004-11-10T18:22:55Z")
Ah, another wonderful day of being a worker in Bush’s America. (Actually, it’s pretty clear that Mr. Employer’s pecker has completely taken charge of his brains. He’ll be sued senseless soon enough.) ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/7 "2004-11-10T18:28:31Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > Ah, another wonderful day of being a worker in Bush’s America. I don’t know that Bush has anything to do with it. I can attest that I have NEVER been spanked at work. Never. Not once. Not even threatened with it!! To make the girls sign a contract giving him permission…jeez! What else was he putting in those smoothies?? ---
**Author:** ![Marathon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Marathon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marathon)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/8 "2004-11-10T18:33:18Z")
> [@](#): > > At the company headquarters in Minneapolis, sales manager Tom Novetzke described Levengood as a “very Christian person,” adding that “We’ve never had a complaint.” So THAT’S what the Christians do!! \ ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/9 "2004-11-10T18:34:45Z")
I think it just points out how serious workplace harassment can be. Not a lot of employees are able to confront a boss if it means loss of a job. They might win in the end but that isn’t assured and a person still has to pay the rent and grocery bills. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/10 "2004-11-10T18:35:03Z")
I can imagine the conversation these women will have at their NEXT job interview. “Well, that’s all the questions I have. Do you have any questions for ME?” “Yes, will there be spankings?” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/11 "2004-11-10T18:38:40Z")
… and then the oral sex! ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/12 "2004-11-10T18:39:01Z")
So I guess the company will transfer him to their Castle Anthrax outlet? ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/13 "2004-11-10T18:40:11Z")
> [@Barrytown](#): > > So THAT’S what the Christians do!! I can only speak for myself, not all of Christendom, but only consensually. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/14 "2004-11-10T18:50:57Z")
from the story: “She said that a day earlier he ‘snapped a photograph of her behind’ as she reached for a bottle on a shelf.” She: What’s that for? He: Target practice. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/15 "2004-11-10T18:56:37Z")
Adds ‘shaved ice business owner’ and ‘naughty employee’ to list of fun games to play… ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/16 "2004-11-10T19:07:47Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Exactly how hard do you have to be for work to put up with this crap? In the only industry I can think of in which you have to be hard for work, a spanking or two wouldn’t be a problem at all. 😛 I can’t believe I’m the first one to jump on this…you guys are slacking! ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/17 "2004-11-10T20:07:09Z")
Talk about bustin’ yo ass for da Man. What an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/18 "2004-11-10T20:12:21Z")
Hell where’s this place at again? SIGN ME UP!! 😃 I’ll be messin up EVERY day!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/19 "2004-11-10T20:24:13Z")
Some people just don’t _like_ a banana in their smoothie. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048/20 "2004-11-10T20:42:00Z")
> [@](#): > > One of the women told police that on her first day at the Tasty Flavors Sno Biz, Levengood made her sign a statement that said: “I give Gene permission to bust my behind any way he sees fit.” So, is this standard boilerplate, or was it specially written by Gene’s lawyer? Silly. Sad, pathetic and hoplessly silly… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employer-arrested-for-spanking-employees/274048.md?page=2)