Two private hostesses that worked for the co -founder of the iconic retailers of household improvements, The Home Depot, say they renounced their work because they were excessively working as they covered the ‘inept’ co -workers who only maintained their work because They were involved in romantic relationships with their bosses.
In an explosive lawsuit filed in a district court in Atlanta last week, Adele Pearson and Samantha Carlisle describe how they sometimes worked 26 days a month, accumulating about 90 hours of work per week while working for Ambfo, Arthur’s family office M. blank.
Arthur M. Blank, 82, co -founded Home Depot in 1978, making him a larger home improvements in the United States.
Originally from Queens, New York, Blank has turned Atlanta into his home and has made important investments in Georgia. In 2002, Blank bought the NFL team, the Atlanta Falcons, and in later years, has made several other sports property purchases in the area.
It is estimated that Blank has a net assets of around $ 7 billion, and has two private aircraft through its Ambfo business for use by Blank, their family members and affiliated companies.
In 2021, Pearson joined Ambfo as his main flight attendant, winning up to $ 175,000 per year when he left the company in 2024. She says that her movement was driven by being excessive and not receiving overtime.
Pearson and Carlisle were responsible for providing a service by flight, creating menus for each flight, buying the necessary provisions, carrying out personal mandates for the white family, selecting hotels and restaurants and reserving activities related to trips.
Pearson estimates that all these tasks required five hours of work before they arrived at the hangar. The flight attendees would arrive at the hangar at least two hours before the exit and pass about an hour and a half after each flight cleaned the plane and completed other activities after the flight.
Even when they were far from Atlanta, Pearson and Carlisle, they had to help the family blank with ministerial tasks, and the couple often remained ‘guard’ for last minute trips.
During these ‘call’ periods, the hostesses had to stay within two hours of the hangar, which means that they were not free to make plans in some of their free days. When they were not on duty, the couple says they still received calls frequently from the office when they tried to relax.
In 2023, Pearson and Carlisle say they were scheduled to work an average of 21 days per month, but in a few months, they worked up to 26 days. However, the service records did not document this high workload because, the demand affirms, the company’s officials falsified the time records.
In an attempt to address their high workload, Pearson and Carlisle requested that Ambfo hired additional staff, but claim that this request simply worsened things.
One of the two additional hostess hired to help Pearson and Carlisle only remained committed to Ambfo because he was in a ‘romantic relationship’ with Blank, he alleges the demand, while a second was “completely not qualified for the position.”
To make things worse, a flight operations coordinator who was in a romantic relationship with an executive of the company was “unable to perform basic tasks,” according to civil complaint.
Pearson and Carlisle are demanding Ambfo for violating the Law of Fair Labor Standards (FLSA), claiming that they were not paid for an overtime cousin despite being entitled.
Ambfo has not yet responded to the civil complaint that was presented by the law firm Lee Meier on October 18. The case has been submitted under the case number: 1: 24-CV-04751
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