December 16, 2010

They planned tours of two North Dakota wineries and a winter extravaganza with a sleigh ride, tobogganing and hot toddies around a fireplace inside a chalet

The company that makes Hot Tamales candy offered its sales team an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii if it met its annual goals, and a trip to the nation’s arctic tundra if it didn’t.

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  1. Phil Bebbington on December 16th, 2010 at 10:53 am

    I would have deliberately underperformed just to get to North Dakota! Not that underperforming is anything that I have to work hard at.

  2. Sheila Ryan on December 16th, 2010 at 11:11 am

    North Dakota wine.

  3. Joel Bernstein on December 16th, 2010 at 11:55 am

    I like how going to the midwest is considered penance.

  4. Sheila Ryan on December 16th, 2010 at 11:58 am

    Joel, I’ve been doing penance since I was twenty-one, and I’m still not sure I’m done.

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