Workers Made To Crawl On All Fours For Failing To Meet Sales Quota

cording to pictures circulating on Chinese social media, workers in the city of Zhengzhou China have been made to crawl on all fours for failing to meet a sales quota.

Chinese firms are known to push employees hard in an effort to drive forward business, although human rights groups have expressed concern about the methods employed.

The length of time spent on the punishment varied, with the fastest individual finishing the nearly two mile journey in a little over an hour, while the slowest crawler took nearly three hours before he finished. In his particular case, his jeans were torn and his knees bleeding from the constant pounding on the irregularly-shaped wooden planks. Other workers were also bleeding from their palms, having torn calluses off on the nails holding down the boardwalk. Despite many tears and much pain, according to the supervisor, all the employees were expected to be back at work the next day to begin meeting the new, increased sales quota.