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How NOT To Sack Someone
Posted: 2003-05-30 08:21am
by Admiral Valdemar
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?
Posted: 2003-05-30 08:29am
by Sea Skimmer
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.
Posted: 2003-05-30 12:47pm
by TrailerParkJawa
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.
Posted: 2003-05-30 01:00pm
by neoolong
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.
Posted: 2003-05-30 01:15pm
by Vertigo1
Talk about a shitty way to get the boot...
Posted: 2003-05-30 01:37pm
by TrailerParkJawa
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.
Posted: 2003-05-30 01:41pm
by Gil Hamilton
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.
Posted: 2003-05-30 02:11pm
by neoolong
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.
Posted: 2003-05-30 02:21pm
by nechronius
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.