Chinese Employees Made to eat Worms for Not Meeting Sales Target

A Chinese sales company has forced its employees including a pregnant woman  to eat live worms after they failed to reach their sales targets,  Chinese media reports.

These Pictures emerged showing the sales workers having to drink Chinese rice wine which contained squirming mealworms in front of their colleagues.
The incident took place in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, on November 8, according to Huashang Daily.

According to the report, 50 to 60 employees, all wearing yellow uniforms, gathered at a public square in Hanzhong to witness the punishment.

A man,believed  to be the supervisor, carried two plastic bags in his hands. He announced the names of the employees who had failed to bring in enough clients for the companies the day before. In one of the plastic bags held by the man, there were a large number of live mealworms.

 In the other, there were chopsticks, glasses and two bottles of Baijiu, a hard liquor which is around 40 to 60 percent alcohol. The man poured the Baijiu into glasses. He then used chopsticks to put mealworms into the glasses of wine. Employees who had missed their sales targets were ordered to drink the mixture in front of their work colleagues.

One employee told the reporter from Huashang Daily: 'Today we are punished to eat mealworms.