Beijing (CNN) Eight employees of a rural bank in China have been publicly spanked for poor
performance.
A
cellphone video of a man with a wooden stick spanking each employee four times
on a stage has been widely shared on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, since
Sunday.
One
of the hits threw a woman off balance. Some members of the audience, seated at
dinner tables, can be seen turning their heads away in embarrassment.
Initial
Chinese media reports suggested it was the employees' boss wielding the stick
but, according to a statement by local authorities in Changzhi, Shanxi
province, the spanking was at the hands of a corporate coach during a team-building
exercise organized by the bank.
It
also claimed the coach shaved a man's head half bald as punishment.
At the
event, a total of 216 bank staff were divided into 27 teams and, the
bottom-ranked team -- including four men and four women -- were spanked by the
corporate coach and told to reflect on their poor performance, according to the
statement.
Jiang
Feng, the coach with the Shanghai Hongfeng Leadership School, apologized for
the stunt in a video post. "This incident also offered a great lesson to
myself, that it reminds me I should improve my teaching methods," he said.
The
Shanghai-based company and Jiang didn't immediately respond to a CNN request
for comment, nor did the bank.
Beijing
News, a state-run newspaper, reported that Jiang's two-day corporate boot camp
cost the company 100,000 yuan ($15,300).
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