This archive report was first published on 26 August 2019.
Published on August 26, 2019, a disturbing video has surfaced showing employees of a Guizhou construction material store being forced to eat live mudfish and drink chicken blood as punishment for failing to meet their sales goals.
The video, which has sparked widespread outrage on Chinese social media, shows a man handing out live mudfish from a plastic bucket to about two dozen employees and instructing them to 'bite it until it breaks.'
According to a spokesperson for the company, the event took place on August 4 and involved about 20 employees who had failed to meet their sales quotas. However, the spokesperson claimed that employees volunteered to take part in the punishment.
However, a representative of the construction material super-store told Chinese newspaper Beijing News that the incident did indeed take place and involved employees drinking a strange liquid reported to be chicken blood, and then grimacing and retching in disgust.
Chinese social media users have condemned the actions of the employer, but unless the state steps in, public outrage isn't going to stop such things from happening again.
