10 seconds of uninterrpted eye contact. i am not comfortable with having my body bargained away for his advertising concept. Jeez, can he even force me to do that. i have already been groped once...

and requested for a hug twice. creepy, but i did it with a smile on my face and made the best of it.

I don't think that is legal. You know I'm no pearl clutcher but that sounds like a hostile environment at the very least.

He can hug whoever he likes, but he can't force anybody else to a hug. I don't know how the law is about that, but morally is just unacceptable. You are the one to decide who you want to hug.

I am going to try to have him reword it to say a hug from an employee. That way I can have my manager do the hugging if I am uncomfortable. Really I think the owner is just clueless.

If he had sent a message asking who wants to give a hug for food donations would have been better received than telling us we were doing it.