Former Employee Sues Comcast Over Alleged Pie-in-the-Face Policy

[F]or the entire time Plaintiff was employed by the Defendant, Defendant had a policy that the highest-ranked Retail Sales Consultant for the prior month was instructed by his or her supervisor … to tie the lowest-ranked sales consultant … to a chair in the back office and thereafter assault that person by violently smashing a cream pie in their face. Compl., Figueroa v. Comcast Cable Communications Mgt. LLC (Conn. Super. Ct. filed July 9, 2026) (via Ars Technica). Mr. Figueroa alleges that on February 27, 2026, he resigned from his position of Retail Sales Consultant at a Comcast store in Plainville, Connecticut, because he was no longer comfortable with the company’s policy of motivating consultants by threatening them with cream pies as described above. While you may assume, as I did, that this means Mr. Figueroa must have been the lowest-ranked sales consultant in January, that was apparently not the case. Rather, he alleges that on February 25, he was present for that month’s…