Or like the Bataan Death March?

The following conversation chain happened at Ruby.mn group.  Tony’s comment cracked me up:

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Tony wrote:
What, like beating them with a sock full of pennies?

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kyle wrote:
I strongly recommend against working for this company. 
They have a multi-person track record of being 
abusive toward developers.

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:24 AM, James posted a gig for 
a Software Engineer (Ruby/Rails)