You just can’t get the staff these days

Last year, Denis Rader of Wichita, Kansas, was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences for the murder of 10 people between 1974 and 1991.

You’d think things couldn’t get much worse for Rader, but they have – he’s been accused of discrimination by one of the staff who worked under him at a business called Park City.

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Mary Capps says he is guilty of gender discrimination over an alleged incident that included “abusive, intimidating language and physical gestures” because she was a woman. She is asking for $75,000 compensation.

Can you imagine the moment when the chief executive called the HR person into his office to inform them of this latest development: “Errr, you know that serial killer you hired? Well…”