How NOT To Sack Someone

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-05-30 08:21am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2949578.stm

That's pretty disgusting even if it is more convenient.

Can you imagine just getting a text message saying you're essentially redundant?

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-05-30 08:29am

Shitty method. But it sounds like many of these people likely where out on the job and could only be reached by phone. Making 3,500 calls would take quite a long time and I'd want to know I can stop working as soon as they stop paying me.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-05-30 12:47pm

Horror stories abound from companies that folded in the dot com collapse, so this behavior is nothing new. Some of the worst cases I heard where companies locking the doors and not even letting people get their stuff.

But sometimes you can benefit too. A company down the street from mine, simply left all their furniture after they went out of business. The owners of the building let people come by and take stuff. I got a decent office chair for my den.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-30 01:00pm

While firing people is a part of life, that's a particularly bad way to do it. A call or letter would have at least showed some concern.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-05-30 01:15pm

Talk about a shitty way to get the boot...

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-05-30 01:37pm

neoolong wrote:While firing people is a part of life, that's a particularly bad way to do it. A call or letter would have at least showed some concern.

There are too many companies that dont give a rat's ass about doing the "right" thing. What really irks me, is the packages senior excecs get , when the working staff gets zilch.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2003-05-30 01:41pm

Really, the only good way to sack somebody is to have a trapdoor in your office in front of your desk arranged so when the employee reports to your office you can pull a level that opens the trapdoor and drop them down a shute/slide leading outside (or into an incinerator, depending on what they did).

Really, that was an awfully shitty way to sack anyone.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-30 02:11pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:
neoolong wrote:While firing people is a part of life, that's a particularly bad way to do it. A call or letter would have at least showed some concern.
There are too many companies that dont give a rat's ass about doing the "right" thing. What really irks me, is the packages senior excecs get , when the working staff gets zilch.

Too true. Still a shitty thing to do.

nechronius · Post by **nechronius** » 2003-05-30 02:21pm

An old friend of mine found out that he had no job when his security badge stopped working when he came back from lunch. How's that for shitty.