Universal Music Sued For Cannabis Use & ‘Grinding Involving Buttocks And Genitalia’

An unnamed security guard is suing a variety of parties, including Universal Music Publishing Group and Universal Protection Services, for "alleged labor violations, including a hostile work environment" at the Santa Monica offices of Universal Music.

The Hollywood Reporter has reported that the 41-year-old African American woman had been working for Universal since 2010 and is tired of the rampant use of marijuana and other drugs inside the Santa Monica offices and has moved to sue her former employers after being banned from the premises.

The offices were said to be "infiltrated with pervasive drug use where you could smell marijuana seeping from various offices, and openly used in common areas, and lounges." A number of high profile names have been accused in the document of illicit drug usage on premises, including Macy Gray, MC Ren, guests of Jamie Foxx and Maroon 5 leader Adam Levine.

The security guard made a specific complaint about Levine smoking marijuana which a manager allegedly responded to saying, “[Levine] can do whatever he wants. If he wants to come to the lobby and do a line of cocaine on the floor it's okay.”

You can read the entire document here.

It wasn't just drugs that the security guard in question took offense to, the sexually charged workplace was another complaint that the security guard had to make about the environment in which she worked.

"UMPG employees were complaining about finding bras hanging in the studio and people being found passed out in the showers after partying and drug use," states the lawsuit. "Plaintiff found condoms plastered in the men's bathroom while on patrol. She began witnessing UMPG employees engaged in intimate touching and grinding, involving buttocks and genitalia."

The security guard was also allegedly the victim of racial slurs from artists visiting the building over time.

The final straw is said to have come when T.I. – who, along with his wife Tiny and their entourage, were also blamed for the cannabis use, was in one of the building's studios, working on a track with fellow rapper Future. After asking one of T.I.'s bodyguards to move his vehicle, the direction was shut down, the guard saying “I gotta be able to get this boy outta here if a shootout or something goes down.”

After making a report about the incident to management, the security guard was suspended from her job and later told she was banned from the premises.

The Hollywood Reporter says the platiff is “seeking protection under California's whistle-blowing statute and alleging discrimination, retaliation, being subject to unsafe work conditions, harassment, infliction of emotional distress and more. She is demanding an unspecified amount of lost and future earnings, medical bills and general and punitive damages.”

While her discrimination and retaliation claims may be tough to refute, the fact that cannabis is legal in the state of California for medical use might make the weed whistle blowing somewhat pointless.

Makes your work's casual Friday seem a bit lame in comparison, really.