Author Topic: Fired by an Email (Read 4459 times)

fredster · « **on:** August 31, 2006, 09:11:17 am »

Radio shack fired 400 of it's employees via email.

Now isn't that nice? Anybody ever have this happen?

At least it wasn't a text message on the cell phone, but I suppose that's next.

Whatever happened to the good ol' days when they just gave you a pink slip and carried your ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- to the door with you ?

Nobody has any balls anymore.

CheffoJeffo · « **Reply #1 on:** August 31, 2006, 09:13:24 am »

Quote from: fredster on August 31, 2006, 09:11:17 am

Nobody has any balls anymore.

Too busy shaving them ...

Cheers.

Hoopz · « **Reply #2 on:** August 31, 2006, 09:25:38 am »

Quote from: fredster on August 31, 2006, 09:11:17 am

At least it wasn't a text message on the cell phone, but I suppose that's next.

That happened recently.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2006/08/fired_by_text_m.html

ChadTower · « **Reply #3 on:** August 31, 2006, 10:29:16 am »

Ouch. I'd be convinced it was spam or some practical joke and still show up for work.

AtomSmasher · « **Reply #4 on:** August 31, 2006, 11:41:05 am »

I remember back in 1998 or 1999 there was an electronics store chain (I think it was called Inca) and they closed all of their stores on the same day, but they failed to tell anyone but the managers that they were closing, so all the employees showed up to work to find all the doors locked with no way to get into the building. I still remember the picture in the paper of the employees sitting on the curb in front of the store waiting for someone to tell them whats going on.

Dartful Dodger · « **Reply #5 on:** August 31, 2006, 12:45:16 pm »

Harsh.

A couple of years ago while working at a hotel that had multiple banquet halls an airlines company had flown in people from around the country for this big event. Half of the people were told to go to a meeting in a room at one side of the hotel and the other half were told to go into one on the other side. Each room had about 400 people.

The people in one of the rooms were told that after today they were going to be getting a heavier work load because the people in the other room were being told they no longer had a job.

I was refilling the self serve coffee urns in the hallway and I didn't know what was going on. I just saw all the people from the fired room waiting in line to use the pay phones, on cell phones or hugging each other and they were all crying or looking very pale. This was a few months after the World Trade Center, so I was worried there was another attack. It was really depressing.

ChadTower · « **Reply #6 on:** August 31, 2006, 12:52:05 pm »

When I was 15 I worked at Dunkin Donuts. 40 hours or so a week, had a close relationship with the owner because he liked having someone there during the baking hours to talk sports with all night. It was a good job about 100 yards from my house. I showed up to work one day (at 2am, keep in mind) and there was a giant hairy Greek guy baking. Dude yelled at me for going through the back door, then when I told him I worked there he said "not anymore you ---smurfing--- loser, I own this place now, get the ---fudgesicle--- out". I had been at work the day before and was given no indication of the place being sold. That was weird. Never heard from the prior owner again and I had to have my uncle the attorney contact the new owner to get my last paycheck.

fredster · « **Reply #7 on:** August 31, 2006, 01:45:21 pm »

Goes to show how blackberries and cell phones and email have preverted our existance. We can't talk to anybody anymore. We can't stand confrontation in situations like this.

Used to be this kind of thing was done face to face. Now we are just vacuous heaps of spineless PC jargon.

Dartful Dodger · « **Reply #8 on:** August 31, 2006, 02:10:16 pm »

I think it's a sign of how nuts people are.

Send them an email, because if you do it in person they might kill you.

Hoopz · « **Reply #9 on:** August 31, 2006, 02:14:42 pm »

Quote from: Dartful Dodger on August 31, 2006, 02:10:16 pm

I think it's a sign of how nuts people are.

Send them an email, because if you do it in person they might kill you.

At my last firm, we had a list of people that we thought would go postal if they got canned. Or if they got pissed. It was funny yet true though.

lokki · « **Reply #10 on:** August 31, 2006, 02:16:46 pm »

Quote from: fredster on August 31, 2006, 01:45:21 pm

Used to be this kind of thing was done face to face. Now we are just vacuous heaps of spineless PC jargon.

Not that different from receiving a pink slip with your pay check. I guess it is hard to fire 400 people on the same day one on one.

(not that I am defending this practice...)

ChadTower · « **Reply #11 on:** August 31, 2006, 02:19:21 pm »

Doesn't have to be one on one... can be one on ten. One on twenty. However it is managed, people deserve a little dignity.

Vigo · « **Reply #12 on:** August 31, 2006, 02:38:20 pm »

and the ability to ask a question to the person who tells you that you are fired.

I'm sure all the email replies to the firing email got no response...

JackTucky · « **Reply #13 on:** August 31, 2006, 03:52:59 pm »

They had a big meeting the day before and told the people they would hear electronically whether their "position had been eliminated"

Eff the bosses. If they don't want me, I don't want them, and I top tank the place before I leave.

Jacktucky "full of class"

ChadTower · « **Reply #14 on:** August 31, 2006, 03:55:10 pm »

Forget that, top drawer them.

grantspain · « **Reply #15 on:** August 31, 2006, 06:59:20 pm »

if someone fired me by email i would go to their office and shove their pc up their arse until they said they were sorry,or just do what we do in the u.k and punch the sh4t out of them-not so smug now muther

jbox · « **Reply #16 on:** September 01, 2006, 03:21:02 am »

I'd go see a lawyer and force them to keep paying you until they actually sent an official document. Unless the company has a PGP or similar signing system, emails aren't signed, and a signed document is usually the minimum you need for contract termination.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #17 on:** September 01, 2006, 03:37:50 am »

the sad thing is more and more companies will start taking this approach....

NightGod · « **Reply #18 on:** September 01, 2006, 05:03:57 am »

Quote from: jbox on September 01, 2006, 03:21:02 am

I'd go see a lawyer and force them to keep paying you until they actually sent an official document. Unless the company has a PGP or similar signing system, emails aren't signed, and a signed document is usually the minimum you need for contract termination.

VERY few people have contracts for their jobs these days, especially at the level these positions were eliminated from. All they need to do is tell you their going to stop paying you, don't need much more than that to terminate at-will employment.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #19 on:** September 01, 2006, 05:54:40 am »

What we need is more Unions

NightGod · « **Reply #20 on:** September 01, 2006, 06:24:21 am »

Well run unions, yes. Sadly, not many of them are well run anymore.

JackTucky · « **Reply #21 on:** September 01, 2006, 11:00:40 am »

My boss just sent me an email that Nintendo joysticks are always broken, and they suck. I felt this was out of line.

Jacktucky

DrewKaree · « **Reply #22 on:** September 03, 2006, 02:17:28 am »

Quote from: JackTucky on September 01, 2006, 11:00:40 am

My boss just sent me an email that Nintendo joysticks are always broken, and they suck. I felt this was out of line.

Jacktucky

You've done it now. He's going to have to issue memo's to the entire company about the fallacy of your statement until your office turns into the local coma ward due to boredom.

jbox · « **Reply #23 on:** September 03, 2006, 08:39:45 am »

Woahhhhhh there cowboy... Slow down. You can't just send these things around like free smiles. You need to make sure you have completed your coversheet so the TPS info will be right, m'kay?

Grasshopper · « **Reply #24 on:** September 03, 2006, 09:06:42 am »

[Provocation]

Thank god I live in a country where employees have rights.

[/Provocation]

jbox · « **Reply #25 on:** September 03, 2006, 09:19:09 am »

Quote from: Grasshopper on September 03, 2006, 09:06:42 am

[Provocation]
Thank god I live in a country where employees have rights.
[/Provocation]

Loser. On our island worker's can have lefts as well.

hypernova · « **Reply #26 on:** September 03, 2006, 10:24:14 am »

I tell you...you guys are missing out on your middles. Suckers!

SithMaster · « **Reply #27 on:** September 03, 2006, 11:30:10 am »

so wait when you worked at dunkin donuts did you ever get free donuts?

ChadTower · « **Reply #28 on:** September 03, 2006, 12:04:06 pm »

Didn't want them.

Ed_McCarron · « **Reply #29 on:** September 04, 2006, 11:59:39 am »

Quote from: ChadTower on September 03, 2006, 12:04:06 pm

Didn't want them.

Translation: I know what goes into them.

ChadTower · « **Reply #30 on:** September 04, 2006, 04:49:59 pm »

Sorta... more like I know what goes into the fryolator with them. And how often that oil is changed.

Zakk · « **Reply #31 on:** September 04, 2006, 08:15:18 pm »

Translation: It was Chad's job to change the fryer oil.

ChadTower · « **Reply #32 on:** September 04, 2006, 08:59:10 pm »

It was my job to change the filters on the grease trap... worst... job... ever. But we used to dip random stuff into the boiling oil to see what would happen. While making donuts. And one time we accidentally threw a live rat in there. Didn't change the oil, didn't even throw out the donuts that were in it at the time.

Ed_McCarron · « **Reply #33 on:** September 04, 2006, 09:14:18 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on September 04, 2006, 08:59:10 pm

And one time we accidentally threw a live rat in there.

Accidentally? What, you thought it was dead?

SithMaster · « **Reply #34 on:** September 04, 2006, 09:44:32 pm »

no he thought it was a live.

sounds yummy. so whered you find the rat in the store or was it brought from the dumpster? and why a rat?

Vigo · « **Reply #35 on:** September 04, 2006, 11:04:32 pm »

Quote from: Ed_McCarron on September 04, 2006, 09:14:18 pm

Quote from: ChadTower on September 04, 2006, 08:59:10 pm
And one time we accidentally threw a live rat in there.

Accidentally? What, you thought it was dead?

no, he thought it was a mouse

ChadTower · « **Reply #36 on:** September 05, 2006, 07:45:57 am »

They were doing construction next door, tearing down an abandoned building, and for a month or so there were rats everywhere on that street. Thousands of displaced rats. It was July, about a billion degrees in there, so we had the back door open while cooking. A rat ran in and jumped up on the powdered baking table. My boss took a towel and towel flicked the thing to scare it off the table. He actually hit it, it flew threw the air and landed in the fryer. Made a really sickly gurgling sound as it fried alive. We fished it out with the donut scoop and kept going because there was no way we were going to lose 90 minutes of prime baking time to flush the fryer and we had no place to store an unanticipated vat of oil that late in the month.

nostrebor · « **Reply #37 on:** September 05, 2006, 11:31:19 am »

I'm hungry!

WHO WANTS DONUTS!!

<pretend this is a puking icon>

jbox · « **Reply #38 on:** September 05, 2006, 11:42:30 am »

Can I get fries with that?

Zakk · « **Reply #39 on:** September 05, 2006, 05:44:48 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on September 05, 2006, 07:45:57 am

They were doing construction next door, tearing down an abandoned building, and for a month or so there were rats everywhere on that street. Thousands of displaced rats. It was July, about a billion degrees in there, so we had the back door open while cooking. A rat ran in and jumped up on the powdered baking table. My boss took a towel and towel flicked the thing to scare it off the table. He actually hit it, it flew threw the air and landed in the fryer. Made a really sickly gurgling sound as it fried alive. We fished it out with the donut scoop and kept going because there was no way we were going to lose 90 minutes of prime baking time to flush the fryer and we had no place to store an unanticipated vat of oil that late in the month.

Oh yeah, heaven forbid you lose 90 minutes of baking time. You mean "I wasn't going to stay late, and it's not like I was going to eat the doghnuts." I see your attitude towards your fellow man started early in life. Makes me absolutely ill to think that there are people who feel this way, working in fast food joints (oh and yes I know you're not the only one, but that is absolutely no excuse).


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