India, March 29 -- A bizarre workplace incident surfaced online, where a CEO allegedly penalised a senior employee for addressing her by name instead of "Ma'am." According to a Reddit post, the CEO made the employee write "I will not call you by your name" 100 times on paper as punishment, a method reminiscent of school discipline.

The post, shared by a Reddit user who recounted the incident of a friend working at the company, described it as shocking. The friend initially texted, "You won't believe what happened with my senior today," before revealing that the CEO had taken extreme measures to enforce her preference for being addressed formally.

Despite the senior employee having addressed the CEO by name for over a year, the punishmen...