Car Dealership Boss is Sued Over His 'Weaponized' Farts and Nipple-Pinching to Establish Dominance
Source – Brett Bland is a car salesman who’s had his fill of the raunchy, sales-bro culture at the southeast Texas dealership where he used to work.
According to court documents filed in Galveston County, Bland is suing his former boss and the dealership’s parent company for what he calls the “sexually hostile,” and — at times — smelly, work environment he endured for more than a year at the AutoNation Acura dealership in League City, just southeast of Houston, near the Texas Gulf Coast.
In his lawsuit, he accuses his former boss, Jeremy Pratt, of weaponizing his own farts and repeatedly pinching Bland’s and other male subordinates’ nipples.
“He reinforced dominance over his subordinates by regularly entering their enclosed offices, intentionally passing gas and then laughing as they were forced to breathe soiled air,” the plaintiff’s original petition in Gavelston County’s 212th District Court says. …
The dealership eventually fired Pratt, but … management has continued to allow Pratt to loiter at the dealership even after he was fired, where Pratt continues to belittle Bland and other former subordinates.
I would have hated to work for Jeremy Pratt. I would have hated to have a boss who would use his farts as a Weapon of Ass Destruction and nipple-pinching as a fear tactic. But by God, I can respect the move. This is something right out of the animal kingdom. The Alpha seizing control of the herd with his ass pheromones and inflicting pain with his superior tusks to subdue his weaker opponents. It’s so goddamned primal you have no choice but to admire him for it. And so much more effective than say, just being a better salesman by offering better service or satisfying customers’ wants or whatever.
So yeah, I respect Pratt a lot more than I do the aptly named Brett Bland. Welcome to the jungle, Bland. A car dealership is an ecosystem, and your boss learned to adapt. To use the weapons nature gave him to ascend to the top of the food chain. Either evolve beyond him or submit. Learn to defend yourself. Counter attack. Load up on cabbage and beans and outfart him. Every time he goes for a nipple you go for his ballbag. He would’ve respected you if he smelled your gas instead of your fear and left you alone. But once you lawyered up, it was the equivalent of lowering your front haunches, pulling back your ears and curling your tail downward. It just demonstrated your submissiveness. And he’s just hanging around waiting for his chance to cull you from the herd.
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Yes, Jeremy Pratt is a Grade A asshole and a horrible boss. But any man who can turn his farts into a weapon is, by definition, the superior man.