Most Outrageous – Woman who takes job forced to box on the Job

Female Sales Employee Forced to Box on the Job–and Box a male no less!

Vivian Mondello went to work as a saleswoman at a Manhattan Company in New York.  Little did 30-year-old Vivian Mondello know or imagine that she would soon be engaged in a boxing match with a male, for a promotional video for the company. In a lawsuit that Mondello filed in Federal   District Court in June of 1994,  Mondello, reported that she was approached in 1993 about being featured in a video called, “White Knock-Out Ad.” She was suing for a whooping $6 million! Mondello contended that she was permanently disfigured   and that her nose was broken in the boxing match against a male employee.  The reported purpose of the boxing match:  The ad was to be shown internally at a regional sales meeting.

Mondello had a meeting with her employer and that she was approached about boxing in a video.   had expressed her concern at the time of being told by her employer about her upcoming boxing bout that she had already had something done to her nose, she did not want to risk any type of injury to her nose.   Mondello also reported that she did not even know how to box.  Though that bit of information did not dissuade her employer from being insistent that she participate in the video.

On May 6, 1993, the big boxing match was set to go.  It was no Rocky story though as  Mondello put on a boxing robe and gloves and stepped up onto a platform —gazing down at her boxing gloves—her male opponent bopped her in the nose.

Mondello described vividly what happened after that fatal blow in her lawsuit, stating that she suffered, “great physical pain, mental anguish and emotional distress.” Her nose was “broken and permanently injured, so she has become disfigured for life.”

Source:
NEW YORK TIMES  – Published June 17, 1994
Woman’s Next Round Is in Federal Court
By MARY B. W. TABOR