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sl8

(13,757 posts)
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 08:29 PM Nov 2018

Chinese firm forces staff to drink urine, eat cockroaches because they didn't meet sales targets

Source: South China Morning Post


Zoe Low
PUBLISHED : Monday, 05 November, 2018, 6:48pm
UPDATED : Monday, 05 November, 2018, 10:19pm

• Three managers of home improvement firm have been jailed after employee claimed staff were subjected to extreme punishments

• Video shows man being whipped with a belt and others drinking cups of yellow liquid

Three managers of a home improvement firm in southern China have been jailed after they forced staff to drink urine, eat insects and flogged them with belts because they did not meet sales targets, local media reported on Monday.

They were arrested after an employee of the company in Zunyi, Guizhou province claimed staff had been subjected to extreme punishments in a post on social media site Weibo last week. The hashtag “employees who failed to meet their goals forced to drink urine” has since been viewed almost 540,000 times.


Read more: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2171781/chinese-firm-forces-staff-drink-urine-eat-cockroaches-because

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lunasun

(21,646 posts)
1. Damn and I thought this guy was an asshole sale puke
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 08:35 PM
Nov 2018
https://m.

And here some would pay to have those women in business suits slap them silly like that
The forced crawling to inspire work productivity is a trump WH dream

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
5. Man, I pity the manager that would ever try and make me do that.
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 09:00 PM
Nov 2018

They would be running for the protection of a jail cell.

keithbvadu2

(36,788 posts)
6. Sales force motivation - What about management failures? - Leadership
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 09:01 PM
Nov 2018

Sales force motivation - What about management failures? - Leadership

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
12. Where it really gets bad
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 02:00 AM
Nov 2018

According to the article, the reason none of these people have quit their jobs is the company is withholding several months' worth of their pay, and they believe they will forfeit it all if they quit.

And the worst part is, two of the three managers who were arrested were sentenced to 10 days in jail and the third to 5 days.

dembotoz

(16,802 posts)
15. Can see that happening. I have worked for real assholes
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:08 AM
Nov 2018

Example is extreme but they would if the could

Farmer-Rick

(10,163 posts)
16. Ah China, just another day in a totalitarian capitalist country.
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:21 AM
Nov 2018

Abusing labor is the hallmark of capitalism.

Remember when people thought China was a communist country?

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