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‘Survivor’ Style Corporate Retreat Descends Into Hellish Nightmare
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‘Survivor’ Style Corporate Retreat Descends Into Hellish Nightmare

April 7, 2026
The Daily Beast
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Moniker PartnersA half-million-dollar corporate retreat to Honduras turned into a week-long disaster involving illness, wild animals, armed guards, and employees stranded on a remote island.Tech media company Plex flew its 120 employees to a Honduran resort in 2017 for what was billed as a Survivor-style getaway. They called it “Plexcon.” The first harbinger of trouble was an email that arrived before the group departed, informing them that the hotel manager and chef had both quit within days of each other.

‘Survivor’ Style Corporate Retreat Descends Into Hellish Nightmare

Things went sharply downhill from there.CEO Keith Valory, 54, had flown out a day early, intending to channel his inner Jeff Probst and welcome his staff off the buses like a game show host. Instead, he spent the arrival morning flat on his back. “I got E. coli, which is maybe the worst thing you could get, possibly, ever,” Valory told The Washington Post this week. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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