India, April 7 -- In 2017, American tech company Plex took 120 employees on a weeklong corporate retreat to Honduras. What followed was a series of unfortunate events that reads like the plot of a slapstick Hollywood comedy. Details of the wild, wild corporate retreat have emerged online almost a decade later - and they include everything from a CEO who got food poisoning to employees passing out from the heat to survival games that involved eating dead tarantulas.

Six employees of Plex spoke to the Wall Street Journal about what went down in Honduras in 2017.

Chaos began soon after 120 Plex employees landed in Honduras for what was supposed to be a fairly comfortable corporate retreat. First, Plex CEO Keith Valory contracted a severe c...