Posted on 06/16/2022 7:47:35 PM PDT by robowombat
25 Employees Injured After Walking Over Hot Coals in Team-Building Exercise Jose Martinez BYJOSE MARTINEZ Jose is a contributing writer for Complex Media. @ZayMarty
Jun 15, 2022
A team-building exercise in Switzerland did not work out as planned when 25 employees suffered burns after walking over a bed of coals that stretched several feet long, New York Post reports.
At least 10 ambulances arrived at a private event on the Au peninsula on Lake Zurich Tuesday night to provide medical treatment, with 13 people transported to a nearby hospital with severe injuries. Police have begun an investigation into the incident and gathered evidence from the site. It’s uncertain if the arrangement of the coals or the way the participants walked over them contributed to their injuries.
The Swiss news outlet Blick reports there were about 150 employees in attendance for the event hosted by the marketing company Goldbach. According to the Kleinreport.ch, Goldbach CEO Michi Frank acknowledged in an internal memo that several members sustained burns after taking part in a “voluntary” team activity. Frank claimed “appropriate preparation” was taken before the participants walked over the coals.
A spokesperson for Goldbach asserts “no one was forced” to participate in the activity.
Live Science points out a number of factors that come into play whenever you try to successfully execute firewalking. It’s important to pick the correct type of charcoal that burns away to gray ash instead of getting too hot, as well as pat down the coals in order to create a more flat surface.
A decade ago, 21 people suffered second and third-degree burns after walking over coals during an event hosted by motivational speaker Tony Robbins in San Jose.
That goes to show you that you can get two dozen idiots to believe in something your brain screams at you to NOT do. It’s like the Biden Cult.
With my sister and mom I attended a bottle dancer show in the Caribbean.
The female dancer brought out several bottles and smashed them on a canvas rug laid out on concrete.
She proceeded to do an energetic dance on the broken glass.
Mom, who was normally a quiet individual kept shouting “Don’t do it!”
We never did figure out how the dancer was completely uninjured.
My guess is that it had something to do with the hot coals.
I believe it’s best to soak your feet beforehand to encourage leidenfrost effect.
CC
the more times the coals are walked on, the less powdered ash on them that helps the heat barrier
If this is not satire how in the hell could people be this damn STUPID, OMG!!!
WEF members preparing for a trip down below?
This forum needs a like button
Yup. Sometimes it gets humid, especially during monsoon season. When the air is dry, the nights are cooler. Like everywhere else, it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.
They dance on broken glass in India, too.
But THESE are ‘bottle dancers’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYuYojyDwN4
:-)
‘Office Space” ??
You win the thread.
I was able to lay on a bed of nails once at a science museum. The trick seems to be (1) not to use really sharp nails and (2) to distribute your body weight so that it all isn’t in the same place.
Dwight could have taught them! https://youtu.be/2jB0a81opkQ
Very soft feet.
No rednecks in Switzerland
This is just too hilarious. Hopefully, the lessopthey learn here is don’t trust management especially when they tell you to walk on hot coals.
They sound like team players to me. Idiots, but team players. Quite the dilemma for the HR department.
Twice in college I got caught “bending the rules” on land surveying problems. Both times the professor made it seem like I was going to get into trouble - but then praised me/us (the survey team) on our resourcefulness in solving problems.
I would keep the folks that said no, or better yet, if a threw a bucket of water on the coals and walked across wearing sturdy work boots.
They were also goaded by the false concept that much of ones perceptions are illusory and that one can do ANYTHING once one puts their mind to it. So they could have thought that the previously injured probably just did it wrong and didn’t approach with the correct mindset. Dummies. Not smart to play with fire.
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