This is kinda like when Oscar Madison and Felix Unger were in a retreat at a monastery, and they were forced to serve penance by baking bread and keeping silent for 24 hours, and they couldn’t even make it to breakfast without getting three strikes each.
The difference was that in this case, when Felix thought they were expelled from the retreat, Richard Stahl says “No, there is no punishment. You failed at a task, and we’re forgiven. Possibly when you go back out there, your employees, your friends and loved ones may fail at something, and you won’t be so hard on them.