According to the lawsuit, Yochum was hired as a Bath Fitter sales representative in April 2004 and was required to participate in a training program that cost her $90,000. The cost of the training was to be withheld as a deduction from sales commissions on her first $3 million in sales. The lawsuit alleges that the sales training provided by another Center Township company, Partners Through People, was actually a religious indoctrination and that the defendants "collectively constitute and conduct themselves as a cult designed to indoctrinate members in their religious worldview."
The training handbook Yochum received "is riddled with religious dogma" that Yochum had to adopt as a condition of her employment. The handbook "required trainees such as Yochum to reflect not on the nature and quality of the renovation materials to be installed by Bath Fitter, as one might expect, but on the nature and quality of ‘Evil, Sin, Judgment Day, Hell, Guilt and Punishment, and Free Will.'" The suit also alleges Yochum had to continue to attend mandatory "Break Out" sessions that were "one-on-one religious indoctrination and brainwashing" after she reached her initial $3 million sales goal.
Yochum objected to the forced religious indoctrination and was ultimately fired in October 2009. The suit claims the company owners told other employees they "could not work with Yochum because she was an atheist." It also alleges the defendants "willfully discriminated against Yochum when they terminated Yochum based on her religious beliefs and her refusal to continue to endure religious indoctrination as a condition of employment." Yochum is seeking to recover damages including back pay, front pay, compensatory and punitive damages and attorney's fees. She is demanding a jury trial.
Many thanks Marilyn!
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Good grief! I don't understand how people can be sucked into these things. She had to pay $90,000? And go through mandatory "Evil, Sin, Judgement Day, etc" sessions and didn't think there was anything odd about that? For five years? Until she got fired?
trust me when i say there is more to this story than meets the eye. wait till it all comes out. it will blow your mind how stupid the owner really is and what he demanded from his "employees"
Frank W. isn't the only one sucking up Lucci's psychobabble. I worked for another company where the owner promoted the same thing and was threatened with losing my job if I didn't continue the training. I dug in my heels and guess what? I lost the job. Lucci is completely narcissistic and will lose his cool when you challenge his teachings. In one of his classes he told us that the reason Buddy Holly's plane crashed was because he was so afraid of flying, therefore his fear brought the plane down. He also stated people who were afflicted with serious diseases -- including infants -- had brought them on themselves, had done something to deserve it and that they were "morally corrupt".
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