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Carcharodonna [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 months ago

Slain California tech CEO allegedly humiliated employees before his death

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Carcharodonna [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 months ago
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    Sam Borghese, another one of Atre’s former employees, testified that his multimillionaire boss had created a hostile, fear-based work environment. Though Borghese reportedly had a friendly relationship with Atre, he said Atre would also withhold his employees’ paychecks , yell at them and fire them if he felt disrespected. Borghese also told the court that Lindsay and Kaleb Charters performed manual labor on Atre’s farm from sunrise to sunset for nearly two weeks, KRON-TV said.

    After Lindsay and Kaleb Charters finally received their paychecks, they reportedly told Borghese that they needed a break since the work was so intense. Once the two of them left, Atre discovered that the keys to one of his farm trucks was missing, and he bounced the checks, the outlet said.

    When Lindsay and Kaleb Charters argued with Atre about their paychecks, their boss told them that they had wasted his time and that “he was worth thousands of dollars an hour — because he makes millions — so anyone who wastes his time is costing money,” Borghese reportedly told the court. Atre then offered the two of them new paychecks for $1,400, but on one condition: They had to perform 300-500 pushups.

    How can it ever be illegal to kill someone like this.

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      shit it should be illegal not to put people like him out of our misery.

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        Witnesses say he was owned so hard that he turned into a corn cob

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    nerd officer-down

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    fuck-around

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    joker-dancing

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    getting stabbed, kidnapped, and then clipped in the dome and dumped for the critters? seems like he got off light imo.

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    packwatch

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    crab-party

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    Offtopic but the site seems to be freaking out atm? It loaded an interesting mishmash of comments seemingly from multiple posts

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      This comment is body-shaming, isn’t it? And also racism, ironic as it may be. I dunno, RNAi, I’d maybe delete this one if I were you

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        Hexbear is obviously better than basically anywhere on the internet but I feel like I’ve been seeing a lot of that lately, and fat shaming sort of posts occasionally, it’s not a super serious/overly common issue but it would be good for hexbears to consider the harm of that.

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        Eh good point

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