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Staff forced to eat worms after failing to meet targets

Employees from a Chinese sales company were forced to eat live worms after failing to reach their sales targets. 

According to Huashang Daily, the incident saw employees drink a mixture of a strong alcohol containing live mealworms as a punishment.

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