Overview
- New interviews reported this week by outlets citing the Wall Street Journal revived memories of the Honduras trip and framed it as a shared ordeal that employees still talk about.
- Plex flew about 120 mostly remote staff to Honduras in 2017 for a weeklong, Survivor-themed retreat budgeted around $500,000 and organized with Moniker Partners.
- CEO Keith Valory said he ignored warnings to avoid raw produce, contracted severe E. coli from a salad on day one, and spent the week in his room on an IV.
- A former Navy SEAL led grueling beach drills in roughly 100-degree heat, and one manager described landing on a fire-ant hill and needing an antihistamine injection because standard meds were not on hand.
- Challenges included a gross-out platter where an employee ate a dead tarantula, a porcupine fell through a room ceiling, and more than 100 workers were stranded overnight on Utila when small planes could not clear an unlit runway before dark.