BBC bosses hoped that spending £20,000 on mugs with messages encouraging staff to call out bad behaviour would bring an end to a series of embarrassing scandals.
But The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the campaign has gone down the drain – after the messages washed off in just a few weeks.
The mugs were part of the Corporation's 'Call It Out' campaign, which was launched by Director-General Tim Davie in April in response to its Workplace Culture Review.
The report had been commissioned in the wake of the scandal around newsreader Huw Edwards and found there were 'powerful figures' at the BBC who made their colleagues' lives 'unbearable'.
As part of the campaign, the Corporation spent £61,000 on office accessories, including 10,000 pin badges, 7,000 mugs and 6,000 lanyards.
