The Ultimate in Preventing Disgruntled Ex-Employee Rampages August 4, 2006
Posted by madwizard in Business, Current Events.2 comments
We’ve all heard about the corporate sub-culture devoted to research ways to reduce the chance a disgruntled employee will go on a rampage. Firing on Fridays, giving better recommendations than merited, laying off rather than firing, etc…
Well, now we have reached a new low apparently.
LONDON (AFP) – A company has defended its decision to sack one of its staff by text message, claiming it was keeping in touch with youth culture.
Katy Tanner, a 21-year-old sales assistant, received the message while she was off work with a migraine, the South Wales Echo newspaper said Friday.
The text message said: “We will not require your services anymore…Thank you for your time with us.”
“I don’t think it’s right to just text someone. At least they should have talked to me face to face,” Tanner said.
“You’re not allowed to text in sick, you have to phone. The fact that they texted me is a bit of double standards.”
Wow…That’s all I have to say…What a pathetic cowardly way to fire someone. And from what she said, she called in sick earlier that day, since you can’t text in sick! So they decided, after she called in sick, to fire her, and avoid directly telling her about it.
The oddest thing is, it isn’t like it was a bunch of suits in a boardroom necessarily. This was a body-piercing and jewelry store in Cardiff. Weird.
Link via Yahoo News.
