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From crawling through the snow to eating LIVE WORMS: Bizarre public humiliations in Chinese workplaces
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CONTEXT FOR THE IMAGE ABOVE: According to dailymotion:. “Male employees lined up to be slapped by a female manager at a real estate firm’s meeting.
The video, filmed in Yichang City in central China’s Hubei Province on May 1, shows six male workers standing in a line getting slapped by a female manager.
In another clip, a group of workers are crawling around in a circle on all fours.
According to local news, the six men all volunteered to be slapped as punishment after they “failed to fulfil their responsibilities.”
It is also claimed that the female manager was only “going through the motions” rather than dishing out a proper slap.
The convincing slapping sound heard in the video might suggest otherwise”
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS BEHAVIOR
- Employees have been targeted by both bosses and laypeople for their mistakes
- Punishments have ranged from forced crawling and worm-eating to paddling
- China’s labour contract law states that employers can’t humiliate employees
Public humiliation rituals happen all over the world.
But in some Chinese workplaces, shocking photos and videos have emerged of struggling employees getting shamed for their misdeeds by bosses or laypeople.
Some employees have been forced to eat worms as punishment while others have been paddled in front of their co-workers.
While article 88 of China’s labour contract law does state that employers cannot humiliate their employees, these bosses clearly did not get the memo.
WORMS
An employer in Hanzhong, China forced its employees to eat live worms following their failure to reach sales targets.
The workers were gathered in a public square on November 8 where their boss announced the names of under-performers.
He then placed live worms in glasses of Baijiu, a hard liquor with 80 to 120 proof.
The employees had to eat four worms for every client missed, Huashang Daily reported.
Their company was a sales group called ‘Ai Jia,’ roughly translated as ‘home loving.’
A pregnant woman was even asked to be punished until a male colleague received the punishment on her behalf.
She said: ‘I can’t eat worms now, I can’t drink either, unless I don’t want my baby.’
PADDLING
While worms may have been unpleasant, they weren’t quite as violent a punishment as the public paddling one Chinese boss gave his employees.
Shocking footage from June 2016 shows the boss of Shanxi Changzhi Zhangze Agricultural and Commercial Bank in Changzhi, China.
He is on a stage paddling eight people, four times each, Huanqiu reported.
Meanwhile, their stunned coworkers sit in silence in the audience.
A woman can be seen nearly falling over in pain as she gets spanked.
CRAWLING
Forced
One particularly angry boss made his employees crawl around a lake as penance for not meeting sales targets.
Outrageous photos show 12 people crawling around the hard wooden walkway.
The punishment took place in Zhengzhou, China on October 2, 2015, during which employees were supposed to be on national holiday.
Employees were forced to crawl around the 23-acre Ruyi Lake and many sufferers tore their shirts and trousers during the ordeal.
At least one employee cried by the side of the road, People’s Daily Online reported.
The company was not identified.
Voluntary
Another crawling incident saw staff allegedly volunteer to join in the punishment of their manager.
Disquieting footage shows more than 10 people crawling outside a busy shopping mall in Baishan, China.
The incident took place on April 2, 2016.
But in a scandalous twist, the company stated that only the manager was punished – or ‘motivated’ – and his employees volunteered to join him, Huanqiu reported.
Most of the unidentified company’s employees were outfitted in smart dress.
A man at one point shouts at the crawlers to ‘fulfill their commitments.’
The company stated that the employees crawled about 220 metres (720 feet).
Voluntary AGAIN
A baker, meanwhile, made the singular decision to crawl from his branch to another branch after he did not reach his expected profit.
And his dedicated employees decided to join him in the bizarre procession.
The odd footage from Sina shows the boss and his staff inching along hard, snowy pavement in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, China in December 2016.
Onlookers appear to offer both encouragement and disdain.
The boss decided to crawl as a self-inflicted punishment for not reaching his £16,000 business goal, according to reports.
KNEELING
Another peculiar scene in Shenyang, China, saw employees kneeling and chanting in front of their bosses.
The ceremony occurred at a busy public square in September 2015.
Workers chanted ‘thank you for my job’ and most wore red tops and black trousers while some wore white.
Thank you: Passers-by said employees were chanting ‘thank you for my job’
What is going on here? The company insisted the kowtowing display was not forced
But the company, a local hot pot restaurant, claimed the display was not a humiliation so much as a spontaneous display of respect, People’s Daily Online reported.
Restaurant manager Wang said that the display was a performance ceremony during which some employees chose to kowtow.
She said: ‘They were chanting slogans along the lines of thanks to their parents for raising them and prosperity of business.
‘It’s not as the web rumours say about thanking leaders for job.’
SOURCE: DAILY MAIL
By FORREST HANSON FOR MAILONLINE