Okay, let me get this straight. Jodie Fisher, a grown successful woman 20 years sober, feels she needs to call her AA sponsor before going to Mark Hurds Hotel room to review documents. Well it ended up with sex abuse allegations and Mark Hurd getting fired. Why does a sober grown successful woman have to call to run by her AA sponsor about going to a mans hotel room? Did she not have enough brains to make this choice all by herself ? This ongoing dependence on sponsors that has been encouraged more over the years, clearly stunts the emotional growth of a person. Making them feel like they cant think for themselves. It is not like sponsors are given any special training to tell other people how to live their lives.So what gives? Keep the member forever dependent on each other, securing Alcoholics Anonymous tentacles in society and peoples bank account.
‘The first incident described in the letter occurred in October of 2007 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Atlanta, when Hurd and Fisher had dinner together after an HP event. Hurd told Fisher that he was about to fly to China to meet Madame Wu Yi, China’s vice-premier.
“As you were walking back to the Ritz, you invited Ms. Fisher to come up to your room. You said there were some documents that you wanted to show her pertaining to Madame Wu Yi,” the letter read.
It then describes how a distraught Fisher called her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor seeking advice before going to Hurd’s room. Fisher, the letter noted, had been clean and sober 20 years by this time. The sponsor said that Fisher didn’t have to do anything that compromised her integrity.
Thus reassured, she went up to Hurd’s hotel suite, where Hurd asked her to stay the night. Fisher’s reply: “Absolutely not. I barely know you and you are my boss.” An hour later, after more alleged pressure from Hurd, Fisher said she wanted to leave and did, the letter said.’
