Employees caned, shaved and forced to eat bitter vegetables as punishment

Employees whose weekly performance falls under the expectations of their superiors are forced to eat bitter gourd and caned Photo: Courtesy

If your Kenyan boss is in the habit of quarreling and only yelling at you for not meeting deadlines and targets, thank God. Because in China people get severe punishment for such. Crazy Monday has seen photos labeled “the cruellest punishment in history” showing employees of a Chinese company forced to eat bitter vegetables in front of their coworkers as punishment for not meeting their sales goals.

At Leshang Decorations Corporation, a Chongqing-based company, employees whose weekly performance falls under the expectations of their superiors are forced to eat bitter gourd while their colleagues watch. If any of them spit the vegetables during this humiliating experience, they are forced to eat even more of it. Apparently, the company came up with this cruel punishment as a way of 'motivating' unproductive workers to push themselves harder, so they wouldn’t have to eat the bitter vegetables in the future.