Passed over for promotion? Didn't get that pay rise? Or maybe you just think your manager's a two-faced waste of oxygen. Well today's the day to get your revenge by nominating your boss to be locked in a cell and whipped with a cat o' nine tails.
And who is behind this PR stunt - Anne Summers, or maybe strip club Spearmint Rhino? No, it's the children's charity Barnardo's. That's right, the one which campaigns against sexual abuse and violence. As Richard Littlejohn might say, you couldn't make it up! Whatever's next - a sponsored lap dance to raise money for Women's Aid? Perhaps it's another symptom of our super-sexualised "raunch culture".
Barnardo's press office assures me that despite its own publicity material, which promises your boss will be "lashed to the deck" and given the "time of their lives", no one will be whipped. Even so the fundraising event, held on board HMS Warrior in Portsmouth, still has a certain 1970s sex comedy feel about it, particularly when the buxom gardener Charlie Dimmock is acting as a prison warden.
So those of you really wanting to punish your boss might want to pass on this - let's face it, if they're a man of a certain age they might already be paying to be restrained and humiliated. You'll just have to keep spiking their tea with battery acid.
