HOW about this for a staff motivation technique - a Chinese company is attracting all sorts of unwanted online attention after the release of a video showing staff forced to drink urine after failing to reach their sales targets.
The disturbing footage also records the workers lining up to be whipped, while some were also reportedly ordered to eat cockroaches by their bosses at a decorating company based in Zunyi city in the Guizhou Province.
Managers are believed to have exacted the punishments because the staff had "let the team down".
However after the video went viral online police confirmed that three management staff had been arrested pending an investigation.
And on a somewhat related topic, Microsoft billionaire founder Bill Gates has just spent three days in Beijing displaying a jar of human faeces.
He was attending the Reinvented Toilet Expo event, with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation having contributed over $200m on human waste disposal technologies.
"I have to say, a decade ago I never imagined that I'd know so much about poop," Gates quipped during a presentation to delegates.
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