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Burger King Workers Burn Feet
AP via The New York Times ^
| October 6, 2001
Posted on 10/06/2001 1:11:05 PM PDT by sarcasm
MIAMI (AP) -- About a dozen Burger King marketing-department workers burned their feet when they walked over white-hot coals at a meeting intended to promote bonding.
One woman was taken to a hospital emergency room, and Burger King brought in a doctor to treat others whose feet were blistered. Some workers used wheelchairs the next day when they went to the airport to leave for another company retreat.
More than 100 employees at the Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo participated Wednesday in the firewalking, a ritual with origins in religions of the Far East.
The Burger King workers had to sign a waiver acknowledging they might get hurt. The injured employees suffered first- and second-degree burns.
Mildred Morse, a Burger King administrative assistant, was the most seriously hurt. She was released from Baptist Hospital on Thursday.
``You're walking over hot coals, and something can happen,'' said Robert Kallen, owner of The Achievement Group, which ran the event. ``The majority of the people get through it without a nick or a blister.''
A certified instructor, Kallen has led thousands of participants over coals that can be as hot as 1,200 degrees.
Dana Frydman, vice president of product marketing for Burger King, was injured but had no regrets about the event she helped organize.
``It made you feel a sense of empowerment,'' Frydman said, ``and that you can accomplish anything.''
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posted on
10/06/2001 1:11:05 PM PDT
by
sarcasm
To: sarcasm
dorks...
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posted on
10/06/2001 1:13:30 PM PDT
by
sit-rep
To: sarcasm
bump for a later read when some of FR's best have had at it.
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posted on
10/06/2001 1:14:24 PM PDT
by
d4now
To: sarcasm
Burger King hires the stupidist employee's. Last time I went into one they couldn't figure out how to make change.
To: sarcasm
Stupid instructor. Everybody knows that the firewalking is usually rigged so that people don't burn their feet. The fact that these people did shows the instructor was stupid enough to believe that when he managed to walk on hot coals, he actually believed some supernatural power or his own mind prevented him from getting burnt. He should had gotten the "trick" from the original instructor before striking out on his own!
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posted on
10/06/2001 1:15:30 PM PDT
by
bluefish
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To: sarcasm
Burger King workers get failing grades on Darwin test?
To: sarcasm
.... meeting intended to promote bonding.
Bonding with the hamburgers, right?
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posted on
10/06/2001 1:16:56 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
To: sarcasm
lol
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posted on
10/06/2001 1:17:06 PM PDT
by
TLBSHOW
To: sarcasm
About a dozen Burger King marketing-department workers burned their feet when they walked over white-hot coals at a meeting intended to promote bonding. Oops. They left off the part about bonding to the coals.
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posted on
10/06/2001 1:17:22 PM PDT
by
Orual
To: sarcasm
....A certified instructor, Kallen has led thousands....
Is there any question as to this person being certified? As to the employees who would attempt such a dumb stunt, well what can you say. Burger King makes some great charbroiled fastfood, but charbroiled feet!
Want fries with that?
The Tarheel
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posted on
10/06/2001 1:17:47 PM PDT
by
Tarheel
To: sarcasm
I'd call that a successful meeting. If the goal was
intended to promote bonding. Those employees will be bonded to their beds, their wounds will be bonded with gauze and soon all parties will be bonded to their attorneys.
To: sarcasm
When I read the headline I thought they had done something stupid like standing barefoot on the grill at a Burger King.
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posted on
10/06/2001 1:19:11 PM PDT
by
BJungNan
To: sarcasm
Dana Frydman, vice president of product marketing for Burger King, was injured but had no regrets about the event she helped organize.``It made you feel a sense of empowerment,'' Frydman said, ``and that you can accomplish anything.''
``It made me feel a sense of scorching pain in my feet,'' one employee, who asked to remain anonymous, said, ``and that hot things can burn me. When I go back to Burger King, I will be more careful with the deep fryer. No more "bobbing for Onion Rings."''
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posted on
10/06/2001 1:20:23 PM PDT
by
xm177e2
To: sarcasm
When corporate idiots meet New Age bullshit....
To: bluefish
If your going to walk over hot coals (stupid decision #1) make sure you KEEP WALKING and do NOT stand still (apparent stupid decision #2).
If you STAND on hot coals, Ms Burger King your feet will burn up!
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posted on
10/06/2001 1:21:34 PM PDT
by
spectre
To: sarcasm
At the risk of digression reading this post reminded me that my brother walked over hot coals (successfully) at his first Tony Robbins brainwashing session. I've never seen any threads relating to The Tony. We could have so much fun with him.
To: sarcasm
Dana Frydman, vice president of product marketing for Burger King,Coincidence??? I think not
To: sarcasm
You can learn the physics of firewalking
here. It's amazing what people will believe. I highly recommend the book "Flim-Flam" by James Randi. He skewers all sorts of paranormal and mystical claptrap for the nonsense it is.
To: sarcasm
Dana Frydman, vice president of product marketing for Burger King, was injured but had no regrets about the event she helped organize. ``It made you feel a sense of empowerment,´´ Frydman said, ``and that you can accomplish anything.´´
roflmao
If she worked for me I would make her fire her stupid ....
I would tell her that she had just "empowered" her way to a wonderful career somewhere else--and suggest that I would be happy to write a letter of recommendation to the psychic hotline.
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posted on
10/06/2001 1:23:13 PM PDT
by
cgbg
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