"Survivor" Scandal?
Contestant's Tale Of Woe Gets $50G From Show Honcho, But Was "Lunch Lady" Lying?
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Play CBS Video Video Did Survivor Lunch Lady Lie? Did Survivor contestant Denise Martin lie about losing her job as a lunch lady? She faces off with her former boss moderated by Julie Chen.
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Video Survivor Winners Will Travel The first and second place winners of "Survivor: China" talk about what they'll do with their money. Russ Mitchell talks to Todd Herzog and Courtney Yates in New York.
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Video Survivor Gets $1M Check Todd Herzog, the first place winner of "Survivor: China" came to New York to receive his check for one million dollars. Russ Mitchell did the honors.
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Nancy Lane, left, and Denise Martin on The Early Show Tuesday (CBS)
"I went back and I talked to the food service director, and they didn't give me my job back," Martin said, "so I ended up having to go -- I'm a janitor now. I clean the toilets, I wash the floors of the bathrooms, I vacuum the kids' rugs. I miss dinner with my family. I haven't been to a field hockey game yet. I'm missing out on a lot more than I originally had planned on doing."
Near the end of the show, host Jeff Probst announced a surprise for Martin -- a spontaneous one, at that.
"This is very much a live show, and our boss and the creator of this show, Mark Burnett, was backstage listening to Denise's story. And, I'm not kidding: Just now on a break, he said to let Denise know that Mark Burnett is going to give Denise $50,000!"Photos: "Survivor: China" Finale
The next day, school officials where Martin works received thousands of e-mails accusing them of treating her unfairly.
But it turns out, the lunch lady's story may be out to lunch.
Nancy Lane, the superintendent of Douglas Public Schools in Massachusetts, says Martin didn't portray what happened accurately -- and had in fact been promoted, at her own request, to the new position, which pays better and has better benefits.
The two of them faced off on The Early Show Tuesday -- with Lane in New York, and Martin in Los Angeles.
To watch the video of their confrontation, click here.
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Photos: "Survivor: China" Finale
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See all 119 CommentsPosted by BooBoo656 at 11:20 PM : Dec 18, 2007
Get your facts straight before you go off on a race rant...The gravedigger (who I was rooting to win it all) won $100.000 in the popularity contest...
I am at
myspace dot come slash texhayes and I always have room for one more friend in my life..
You still can change the world from a chair, and you can make the world a better place from a chair.
I have my days when I am pissed OFF because of the pain, but I also realize it is good in ways it makes me think and humbles
me.
Life is a gift, not a mystery to be solved,
I try to be Beneolent to everyone I meet,, 99% people pop off to me first, and do not take it personal, and i hope what I write that you do not take it personal,, it shouldn''t I do not pay your bills or rub your back, So what I think or say should be frivolous to you.
I believe if someone does there best, Then the best is all they do.
But I do enjoy defending the working poor in America, I also know you can not help most people who need help. I also believe our world is getting better all of the time, and people are creatures of Habit, and people working under a boss lady like Denise does shows that we still are in a infancy as species.
We have along way to go. People are going to make mistakes, As far as i could tell Denise is a good woman, who does her best, It is too easy to pick on people and it is not right. We all make mistakes and have regret,
How ironic we have this in common, but my happiend on a Motorcycle,,
I Did not ever fire anyone, again I was lucky, I had good men working for me, Good help is hard to find, I know.
and we can agree to disagree,
you live in a make believe world,, your in a LA LA LA LA LA LA state of mind the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experience..
You watch TOO MUCH Dr Phil, Or Leave it to Beaver.
If my statement upset you so bad and you take them PERSONAL and then you say Rude things to me all I can do is Laugh out loud at your reaction ;~}
Your cut from the same cloth as Denise Boss lady,, High-Handed using power or authority without considering the feelings of others..
To me your not having any serious purpose or value, a Cyber Bullie,,Maybe there are some Hadicap folks near your home you can go pick on if it makes you feel like a Big Man !!!!!!
I have been on the bottom digging the ditches,
And I have been on top of my game.and made good money !!!
I have seen so many supervisor like Denises in my lifetime,and I have no respect for them, never will, I have more RESPECT for a White lying Janitor, Take away the Supervisor''s money and everything will change, If she did not get payed the BIG BUCKS she would not give a rats *** what Denise said or did.
It would be GREAT if Denise''s supervisor employees could tell how they all REALY FEEL ABOUT THE BOSS lady.. most people can not manage their money, so they have to eat a ton of dung from supervisor''s like what Denise works under, If Denise had enough money she would tell the world to kiss her buttox and laugh it off like Johnny Rotten.. Bottom line it makes good TV. it is about the MONEY !!!! Make it while you can..
For one she does not have her own Company, She works for the system.
I have my own company, There is a big Difference, working for the government, than working for yourself,
If I was Denise Boss, I would let time take care of it, and let the truth take care of it self. If the local paper ask me the truth, I would of told them the truth. but i would of done it with emapthy and understanding..Denise is a 40 yr old woman not a CHILD, and if Denise was my Husband I would not let my wife work for an abracive supervisor..
So what the BOSS gave Denise time off, It did not cost the boss any money, denise is a FREE PERSON and if she wanted to go on the show, She should be able to, Her boss is her boss not her MASTER, Like I said before, I would not work for a woman like Denise Boss lady, She comes off as an unapproachable Boss,,
If I was the supervisor I would just state it''s not true, and Laugh it off, and I would Help Denise get RICH !!!! That''s what i would do.
Your a Bovine Idiot,,
Texkamaka KNOWS that Denise lied, she just doesn''t care. She thinks that a lying deceitful person should get the money. It shows what kind of a person SHE is, doesn''t it?
LOL.
Tell me something. If you were "Denise''s boss lady", and Denise told the whole world that you wouldn''t give her her job back and made you out to be a jerk in front of the whole world, what would YOU do?
The real boss lady, just stated the facts very calmly to DEFEND herself. Should she not have been able to defend herself? Should she have just let the world go on believing the lies?
There is one thing that I know and that is that if YOU were the boss lady, the whole world would have heard you ranting and raving about what a liar Denise was.
And from looking at all your obsessive posts, I think you should be seeking some mental help sooner, rather than later.
I believe Denise had no Malice, and got caught up in the moment, Not everyone has the same IQ, We need janitors, I beleive they need the same respect as a CEO.
Denise boss lady came off for and educated lady who is in power and has no emapthy for the working poor in our country.
Like I said before not everyone can do the college thing we are all different, Not everyone can play basket ball like Jorden, It is not a perfect world, it is getting better all of the time, Maybe I can understand Denise better than some highly Educated egocentric fool who had never worked HARD for 20yrs, who had lost their emapathy for the working poor
Americans work too hard,We need to work SMARTER,
One small example
Lets take you checkout person at your local grocery store,, they have to Stand on their feet ALL DAY LONG,, why not give the a stool =a seat without a back or arms, typically resting on three or four legs or on a single pedestal. So they will be able to enjoy their golden years, and not live in chronic pain.
Now for these people who work in these department stores in the mall,,Who have to listen to the store music over and over day after day, to me this has to be some form of mental abuse.
Americans work way too much overtime, Then you have a boss lady like Denise who you fear to complain to because they may get rid of you or work you harder..
These are only a few facets out of MILLIONS, I am sure Denise was trying to think of anything to say to JEFF, just to have something to say interesting,,It is what people do who have been mentally abused, and lack mental strength, it''s sad
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