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Ex-HRD 'fired for complaining about cesspool of office debauchery'

Ex-HRD 'fired for complaining about cesspool of office debauchery'

 

An HR Director of American Funding Group is amongst a collective of former employees of a lending company who have filed a lawsuit detailing debauchery, harassment and discrimination at the firm – Daily Mail reports.

The suit claims managers ran the business in a way "that [was] so sexually aggressive, morally repulsive and unlawfully hostile that it [was] rivalled only by the businesses portrayed in the films Boiler Room and The Wolf Of Wall Street”.

According to complaints within the lawsuit, bosses created a “sexual harassment playground” fuelled by drugs, alcohol and swarming with hand-picked women. One, amongst a litany of allegations, notes that the HR Director was forced to handle payments for strippers at an office party.

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