This Earthbound Farm Organic Salad Comes With A Free Dirty Glove [Unacceptable Food]

Reader Justin claims he discovered this gray glove in a package of Earthbound Farm organic salad. Salads, organic or otherwise, do not typically contain prizes, and Justin's reaction ("I was mortified") is understandable. The experience has scarred Justin's psyche and he is left wondering, "How many times was I one package away from eating glove?" Additional picture inside.

I'm willing to concede that the stray rodent skull or giant metal clamp will occasionally slip past the most vigilant of inspectors, but I would think that even a less-than-diligent employee would notice he just lost a glove. For one thing, his hand would probably get cold. And someone should have noticed a giant gray object in a box of leafy greens. We advised Justin to get in touch with Earthbound Farm and let them know that their salads are not children's cereal, and should not come with a treat.

Organic Glove [justinthecity]

WaMu CEO Compares Mortgage Meltdown To The Great Depression [Recession Watch]

WaMu announced today that they lost $1.14 billion in the first-quarter and CEO Kerry Killinger said that nothing of this scale had happened "since the Great Depression." Comforting!

"Nothing of this scale has happened since the Great Depression," Chief Executive Kerry Killinger said at WaMu's annual meeting. "This is the toughest credit cycle I have seen in my years in the industry."

Company Sued For Waterboarding Salesman [Lawsuits]

"We're not the mean waterboarding company that people think we are," says the general counsel for Prosper Inc., a company that sells "coaching packages" over the telephone. They're being sued by a former employee who says he was held down as his boss emptied a gallon jug of water into his mouth and nose as part of a team-building exercise. Our tipster Rachael writes that it's like "an episode of The Office gone horribly wrong."

Prosper Inc.—where slow sellers are put on two-week notice, the supervisor keeps a "2x4 of motivation" on his desk, and the team leader "threatened to draw a mustache in permanent marker on the face of sales people for 'negativity'"—doesn't sound like a healthy place to work even on good days. But Hudgens was somehow surprised by the severity of the "team-building exercise" this time around.

Christopherson called the men into the break room and announced, "We're going to do an exercise." He asked for a volunteer.
 
Hudgens raised his hand. [Never raise your hand, Hudgens! First rule!]
 
"Keep in mind," he said, "the last time we did a team-building exercise outside, we did an egg toss."
 
Prosper maintains that Christopherson explained what would happen next, and Hudgens knew what he was in for, even handing his cellphone and keys to co-workers before lying down. Hudgens insists he had no clue.
 
"So they held me down," Hudgens said, "and the next thing I know, Josh has a gallon jug of water and he's pouring it on my face. I can't scream because the water's going down my throat.
 
"And halfway through he stopped for a second. I tried to mumble the words, 'Stop, knock it off.' I tried to get that out and he continued to pour."
 
"I'm not getting any air," Hudgens said. "Toward the end, I'm starting to black out. I'm getting very dizzy, light-headed. The sensation that's going through my head is, 'I'm going to drown.' "
 
That is the oft-described whole point of waterboarding, though Hudgens said he was not then familiar with the word. He said that what he told a friend in the human relations office two hours later, after "coughing, choking, mucus" was: "My team just tried to kill me."

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