Employees from a Chinese decorating company were forced to eat live earthworms after they failed to reach their sales target.

The video, filmed in the city of Bijie in Guizhou Province on May 25, shows several workers being forced to swallow the live earthworms.

A man was heard asking: "It has parasites, has it?"

A woman replied: "Of course it has."

According to reports, the company used to punish their employees by forcing them to do squats or eat raw eggs but now they were forced to eat earthworms and loaches.

Although the company allowed the employees to pay 500yuan (£60) and buy breakfast for all workers to avoid eating the earthworms. Most people thought the cost was too high and chose to eat the earthworms.

The manager named Leng said: "We have both rewards and punishment, you cannot just take the rewards but do not accept the punishment right? No one was unhappy with our reward and penalty system when we set it up."

The employee who published the video was reportedly threatened by their company and has already called the police.

The video was provided by local media with permission.

在举报人提供的这张图片上，这家名叫“毕节三禾品味装饰”公司的处罚清单上面，列出了“吃蚯蚓、泥鳅......”等多种处罚方式。一开始有部分员工认为公司只是吓唬一下他们，谁知道，就在5月25号晚上的8点半，公司动起了“真格”！看着活生生的蚯蚓和泥鳅，员工们都感觉很恶心、很反胃，公司的一名负责人还自告奋勇的向大家示范怎么吃才能咽下去。

记者在对该公司员工的采访中了解到，之前公司对于未签单员工的处罚只是深蹲、吃生鸡蛋之类，谁也没有想到会发展成吃蚯蚓、泥鳅这种恶劣的方式。尽管公司表示，不吃蚯蚓还可以通过罚款500元，并请全公司的职工吃早餐的方式来代替，但是，即使员工同意罚款，也不能直接交钱，而是要通过给公司打借条的方式来完成罚款。

对于许多等待处罚的员工来说，500元加上请全体员工吃早餐的支出，两项加起来是一个不小的数目，所以，很多人最终都忍痛选择了吃蚯蚓或泥鳅的方式来接受处罚。

为进一步了解情况，记者来到了毕节三禾品味装饰公司，公司冷经理表示：“讲句实话，你来我公司上班，我们肯定要有业绩，那我给你制定了任务的同时，奖励也给你制定了对不对，你不可能说你完了就只要奖励，然后没有惩罚，那说白了是我额外给的钱，其实公司的钱也不是水漂打的对不对？”事情的经过(是这样子)，我们公司现在在做活动，然后我们定了一些奖惩制度，定下来的时候，没有任何人说不会去做，不合理。

就在记者发稿前，接到了该公司一名员工的电话这位员工称，公司认为是他向媒体提供了内部的视频，扬言要对他进行报复。据了解，该员工已经报警。（视频由贵州都市报提供）