**Sarcasm alert** Easy fix, just use AI to modify any prompts that may be an attack before feeding it to the AI. What could possibly go wrong...

I am pretty sure in court they will be looking in the employment contract he signed for the clause that said he agreed to be tied to a chair, abused and humiliated. When they don't find such a clause it should be case closed.

Judging from your attitude, grammar and punctuation I guess I should reply at your level and say you are a fucking MORON.

I doubt the physical force was too much, as requiring medical treatment would have exposed things sooner. The potential for physical pain would still have been significant but that would most likely have faded fairly quickly. The emotional damage on the other hand could last a life time. The stress of working there must have been truly horrible and after leaving finding new employment would be so much harder as you would be second guessing every job you saw listed, worried it might be another abusive workplace.

Yes "the plaintiff wasn't informed of this practice before joining the group" is a huge issue. If I was told about something like that before accepting a role I would see it as a huge red flag and decline the role. Work place abuse has real and sometime serious consequences.

Wow rsilvergun really lives rent free in you brain!

Well said. DarkOx's comments were so callus I was at a loss at how I could constructively reply. I really wanted to reply with a whole heap of expletives which is probably not productive, even if it feels good.

It is actually worst that it sounds as the abuse was targeted at "the lowest-performing salesperson", which means there was always a victim regardless of their actual performance. That said I can see no situation where such abuse could be justified and your statement "it should be in a 1:1 setting, and it should be CONSTRUCTIVE" is right on point. It reminds me of the first time I saw trump on the Apprentice where he got great pleasure out of abusing people publicly before telling them they were fired. It made me wonder what was wrong with trump that he thought such behavior was acceptable, and why did such a TV program even exist? The fact that it had good rating said a lot about modern society and the manager in question probably saw it as an HR guide.

When you say "Literally nobody's performance will improve through humiliation." I can't help remembering the old work place sign "The beatings will continue until morale improves".

Agreed, the fall out could get ugly quickly. I think that is another reason other countries are starting to work together, to give some level of protection from the direct and indirect results of what may come. While some in the USA like to play it off as a joke every other country took the 51st state and Greenland assertions very very seriously when in comes from someone with the metal capacity of trump and his minions.

If the credit runs out and there are shortages of fundamentals like food or fuel it suddenly becomes much easier to create justifications for trying to take the resources of another country. Just looking at the justifications for the existing tariffs. The justification for the large aluminum tariffs on New Zealand were military based, as if we are somehow a threat to the USA.

Yeah, I was aware of the huge cross border trade that is not easily redirected. I have been impressed with the way your PM has made the best of a bad situation and made tough decisions with the long term in mind. Canada's global reputation has risen a lot over the last year.

Here in New Zealand about the only significant thing we import from the USA is Internet services. Changing those over to an EU equivalent would be a hassle, but could be done if needed. The USA is a big export market, about 20% I think, but there is no fixing it. USA customers now pay more for our exports and I presume are already down. The exporters I have spoken to have simply stopped putting effort into selling to the USA, too volatile to plan anything. We are still happy to sell there, just not to put any effort into it. Instead we are focusing on trade agreements with other countries and increasing sales to them, where the effort will actually return results with long term trustworthy partners.

A chance yes, but I wouldn't bet on it. From time spent in the USA watching their TV and talking to people there is is clear they live in an information bubble so have trouble seeing the wider perspective. Due the American exceptionalism that surrounds them they honestly can't see just how bad things are and where they are heading. The majority will vote on whoever promises the cheapest gas and eggs, without a consideration of the bigger picture. It is sad to watch but a total crash to an isolated 3rd world economy is almost a certainty at this time.

Yes, in the past outside of the USA what was done inside the USA affected us but had been relatively stable and predictable. However the USA is now seen as unstable and unreliable. I don't think the average person inside the USA realises just how negative the perception of them is now and how quickly that happened. For those there that do see it they often think things well return to normal if they can just get trump out of power. They have not realised it will take at least a generation of normal behavior by the USA before they will be trusted again.

The problem for the USA is the power shift away from the USA is already in full swing, the USA is no longer seen as the world's leader and everyone is watching to see who fills that vacuum. The players to watch are China, the EU and Canada. China is playing the long game. Canada is the dark horse with Mark Carney's speech on middle powers resonating well. My bet is on an EU+ with the EU working tightly together with Canada and other like minded countries, big and small. We live in interesting times.

Yea, even just transiting the USA, that is refueling the aircraft before heading to real destination, can be a drama as the USA insists that everyone deplane and go through migration just to get back on the same seat in the same aircraft without ever leaving the airport. Before that was just a major pain, now things are so much worse that people doing long haul flights actively choose routes that do not refuel in the USA. My national carrier recently surveyed frequent international travelers about their preferred alternatives that bypassed the USA fueling stop.

I had wondered how you even do a long haul trip to Canada from the southern hemisphere without doing a stop in the USA?

Yea, as someone from the same region as you I agree the USA is no longer on the vacation list. We are both meant to be able to travel visa free to the USA but in reality the ESTA system is worse than the visa requirement in almost any other country. WTF is with requiring unrestricted access to 5 years of social media accounts and all your contacts' personal information. That's way more invasive what is asked for in any visa application I have made.

Last year I cancelled my vacation to the USA and went to Japan. That was so much better I so doing it again this August, goodbye winter and hello summer Comiket. I'm getting old so there is a real chance that the USA will not return to consideration as a vacation destination in my remaining years of being able to travel.

While I would agree it hurts everyone and there are no good solutions there are things that the rest of the world can, and is, do about. In short as quickly as possible move trade away from dealing with the USA and stop relying on USA services. Canada and the EU are leading examples, but all countries are quietly doing it. The key is to make trade deals, not loud statements about the situations. The more dependent you are on US trade the less you talk about the issues and the more you take quiet actions to protect yourself from instabilities of the USA.

So cars had 3.5 gears in 1980?