Which is Worse? The Baseball Bat Bully or the Hospital Hard-Sell?

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As I was typing up the post about the New Century mortgage salesman who used a baseball bat to terrorize co-workers, a friend emailed me this: The Mortgage Broker Who Browbeats A Customer During Open-Heart Surgery.

From Reuters: ‘As a surgeon cracked Mr. DeWitt’s chest open for a quadruple heart bypass, the broker approached Mrs. Dewitt in the waiting room of Elkhart General Hospital in Elkhart, Indiana. ‘It’s now or never,’ she remembers him saying. (They took the loan and later went into foreclosure).

Today’s poll question is this: which is worse, the New Century salesman who whacked his bat (did he think it was funny to call it his ‘convincer’?) against co-workers’ desks to make sure his loans would be approved.... or the mortgage broker who did the hard-sell at the hospital?

Extra credit goes to the best-reasoned responses. Use the Comment button to your heart’s content.