all employees involved in this team building prank have been fired

[Liberal_in_LA]

The video shows them dressed in jumpsuits and balaclavas similar to those worn by the Islamic fanatics and using a coat hanger as a pretend knife.

The “assassins” laugh and joke as a colleague, who has been named as Saf Ahmed, kneels down to be “executed”.


One banker then yells: “Allahu Akbar” — Arabic for “God is great” — which IS executioners scream as they murder hostages.

The film was posted on Instagram. It was later deleted but not before it was seen by appalled co-workers.

HSBC yesterday sacked all involved and apologised.


http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6531927/Bank-workers-stage-mock-IS-style-execution-of-Asian-co-worker.html

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. The llama scenes in Monty Python were far better.

And they were all fired, too.

What twisted mind came up with this? Then again, I've seen some pretty radical hallow's Eve costumes which go way too far. Although I did like the shapely, but naked woman dressed in a large, clear plastic bag, as a bag of M&Ms.

[libdem4life]

2. I mean, what is left to say? My favorite new RW term...Cretins.

[3catwoman3]

3. Do not give these guys fireworks...

...or put them near a body of water with alligators in it.

Appallingly stupid.

[msanthrope]

7. Really? I'd argue that helping them remove themselves from the gene pool

is a public service.....

(to the jury.....no, I would never argue that their deaths were good things. )

[3catwoman3]

10. They may not...

...need our help.

[lindysalsagal]

4. A exaggeration of how corporations use group mind control to subvert individual ethics

These corporations wouldn't spend the huge bucks on these conferences unless this mind control really worked.

I was in the lobby of a big hotel once when I came upon a bunch of them in the middle of one of these group psych-outs.

I knew their brain patters had been altered: Their behavior had an almost drugged look to it: Their eyes were glassy and they were all breathing shallow breaths. None of them really looked at each other directly, but it was alot of posturing and over-confident laughter. They were drunk on their sales numbers, and it had obviously usurped their individual personalities.

Scared the crap out of me. I never forgot it. In their minds, other human beings were simply victims of their corporate tactics. They know how to generate an unlimited greed in these people.

[MH1]

5. "What were they thinking" doesn't begin to cover it.

HOW could someone conceive this and think it was a good idea? This isn't out of touch, it's out of the universe of comprehension.

[NorthCarolinaL]

6. So do they get unemployment?

[Snobblevitch]

8. Although I am not familiar with British labour law,

my guess is.....no.

[hunter]

9. HSBC -- The largest money laundering and tax evasion operation in the world...

... wants us to know they are good corporate citizens because they fired a couple of fools in their document shredding department.

[Orrex]

12. ^^Thread win.

Brilliantly concise!

[malaise]

14. Thread winner by a distance

[Starry Messenger]

11. Aside from the obvious here, this is why I despise corporate team-building exercises.

[Orrex]

13. Beats that time we had to give a 2-minute presentation without using the word "the."

[Starry Messenger]

15. Or miming your feelings about the company logo.

[Orrex]

16. My previous company's logo was a great big "F"

I would have loved a chance to mime that.