The DUMBEST Company Announcements Ever Made - How Would You Respond To These?

[@VerySadPenguin]

At a former retail job i had I (a department supervisor) once took a call from the daughter of one of our seniors who worked there. Her father had passed of a heart attack and she was letting the store know. Despite the fact the guy was dead the store manager still sent a job abandonment notice to his address because, "he failed to notify us of his inability to work and failed to communicate to the proper management." Oh, and she also wrote up people who went to his funeral no matter if they took tine off work for it or were already scheduled off.

[@streetcop157]

If I die… I want production to suffer…

[@evilauthor13]

Oh! The people who never got informed the job was closing almost happened to me. The higher ups hadn't planned on telling any of us they were closing our location, we only found out because my boss saw an email about a work order about a team coming up to remove the pipes in our building. When she questioned it, her boss hadn't been informed either and they had to go up another link in the chain to find out what was going on. Apparently the company had gotten into a fight with the landlord about an OSHA violation and had deemed that it was cheaper and easier to break lease and close the location than it would be to fight the landlord over who was responsible for fixing the OSHA violation. They sold all of our furniture and several plumping fixtures not native to the building to offset the fees from break lease. My boss wasn't supposed to have been included on the work order email as the company hadn't intended to tell us we were all losing our jobs.

[@vellathewench]

That is so evil

[@SkaterBlades]

That is downright idiotic. It doesn't take much effort to send an email to let the team know what is happening and on top of that they're shutting the door on skilled staff they could have otherwise retained at another location

[@RogbodgeVideo]

@@vellathewench Possibly illegal!

[@RogbodgeVideo]

The staff should have been told from the start, and kept informed!

[@kmbbmj5857]

That last one seems to be a common theme esp among chains. Heard that story multiple times over the years with various places. In fact, happened in our town recently. Everything's fine when they close up at night. The workers come in the next morning to find the locks changed, signs down and equipment gone. Overnight. Even the local manager was caught by surprise. The company knew well enough in advance to plan this whole thing like a commando operation yet didn't have the decency to give the workers a warning to find other jobs.

[@badnewsBH]

Personally, I think that should be illegal. If you can plan to close the store, you can give your staff the time they need to change jobs, rather than potentially forcing people on social assistance overnight.

[@naomiemoore5725]

That has happened here, too. I am in Southern California. If there are still other restaurants in another area, I will not go there. How "corporate" treats their staff is inexcusable.

[@carnini]

Happened at a chain restaurant near us. Everyone left for the day and no one knew it was they last when everything was locked up and closed the next day

[@oliviafox6745]

I had a similar experience. I was hired as a graphic designer with a few years experience under my belt. The business ran out of a house. There was some modification on the first floor to accommodate clients. The rest remained house like. Communication was not my boss's strong point. We were to have meetings weekly to block out jobs. He was always too busy. Then I'd come to my desk and find rush jobs on them with incomplete instructions. One Monday I found my drawing table had been moved to the attic. Facing a wall. He felt facing the only window would reduce productivity. I moved it because it felt claustrophobic. In my former space was an older designer. I was told he was renting the room to run his business out of. We'd talk shop during down times. Eventually jobs slowed down for me, I'd ask my boss every morning what he wanted done, so I spent the time updating his graphics files, redesigning some of the older catalog sheets to make them look better. He brushed it off. One weekend his wife called and told me I was no longer needed and if I wanted to pick up my tools. The transportation costs and time wasn't worth it.

[@LazMan-w2g]

My wife worked for an Arborist company that was run by a con artist couple. Their M.O. was to start or take control of a company (or a church in one case) and run it on credit but take as much money as possible out and not pay the debt they would run up. They would then cut and run or declare bankruptcy to avoid paying the debts leaving many people out of pocket. The arborist company was making good money but eventually the partner they had running it realised what they were doing and pulled out leaving them to run it further into the ground. Eventually the 20 year old who they had running it (who started as an 18 year old crew trainee) turned up one morning to find the keys didn't fit the locks (the owner took possession of property because company had not paid any rent) and he turned around to see a repo man taking pocession of the company vehicle because they had not paid the finance on it. He was literally left standing in the rain with no job and no way home.

[@tomburns7544]

I worked in the video games industry and cases like the stealth overnight closing down/doors locked and employees showing up the next day only to be locked out was so commonplace worldwide. Bloody cowardly and just plain evil.

[@Sweetwitchhazel]

And apparently there is a problem with work shy people in this country. How about fed up with toxic work places, horrible managers, zero hours contracts, no job security and being screwed over on a daily basis.

[@TheStuartGibson]

@@Sweetwitchhazel hear hear. Well said. Toxicity seems to succeed sadly

[@naomiemoore5725]

Exactly why I quit my corporate occupation. My mental health was inching in the wrong direction. And found out constant stress for 30+ years, damaged my heart and it is not really healing. Also found a tumor on my heart and they have and remove it and sent to pathology. Please do not let this happen to you. Set boundaries and stick to them. One's health is extremely important.

[@TheStuartGibson]

@@naomiemoore5725 I for one work in corporate world, and by God I won't be pressuring my kids to get a corporate job, I'll steer them towards something worthwhile so they don't have to go through what we have

[@naomiemoore5725]

​@@TheStuartGibsonExcellent decision and great parenting. I am on the other side, partially retired, with two fun jobs. Pay is very little, yet keeps me occupied and gives me a little walking around money. My mental health has improved but damaged my heart. No coming back from that. So happy you are stepping in with your children. They deserve much better.

[@PokeBattlerJaze]

“We can’t afford to pay you more even though we just fired two people and thus have two salaries worth of money that are free now.” Someone make this makes sense please

[@vellathewench]

I didn't even think of that. Yeah, that's wild.

[@50svent]

finding new guys for the job costs money... (paid overtime should be possible, a permanent raise is maybe not possible)

[@PokeBattlerJaze]

@@50svent ok so give paid overtime

[@churchofpos2279]

Even worse, for the people remaining, they cut our hours back. They then bitch and moan that the 2 of us left are behind and can't get the work done.

[@newgrl]

I'm in the US and I've showed up to two restaurant jobs to work lunch only to see the moving vans out back. I'm pretty sure that's standard practice in the restaurant business over here. Don't want to lose your minimum wage kitchen staff or your $2.13/hr wait staff for the last couple of weeks of being open, so they just don't tell them they're closing.

[@vellathewench]

If only that were illegal.

[@Squre]

You can't really blame them. Nothing like everyone quitting and not being able to finish off the time left for your business.

[@stevepreskitt283]

"The bad news is that you're all being let go. The good news is that I got a REALLY big check!!"

[@Khaltazar]

A good news bad news situation would be something such as: bad news, in 30 days you will lose your job, good news the new buyer is providing all current staff being let go with 3 months of their average monthly pay starting when you lose your job.

[@NavaSDMB]

In Spain that's 1 month per year of service (including any temp contracts), paid by the selling party. It's the selling party who is firing the workers.

[@magnusmalmborn8665]

Other acceptable good news is "this other local company is expanding and expressed interest in taking you all on".

[@G.G.8GG]

I had a job with a highly wealthy family who never spoke to me but handled all employment transactions through a manager. I could see that the grown children in the family were extremely spoiled and often just eliminated assets on a whim or bought very high dollar assets without consulting anyone. This put the financial manager into fits and extreme frustration daily. Seeing how unstable the situation was, I asked him to please let me know if he thought any changes were happening that would suddenly cause me not to have a job. Unfortunately that happened but he had no clue. Their overall manager just appeared at the office one day, fired everyone, closed the entire office and moved it a few hundred miles away. In this case, I considered it my own fault, seeing I stayed under those risky conditions.

[@TheStuartGibson]

@@G.G.8GG not your fault for people being terrible parents and not raising their children to have hearts or a shread of humanity

[@mariongordon4199]

Regarding the last one, my daughter was working as a casual at a cafe. They closed over the Christmas break because the owners wanted a break, and they told her to call at the beginning of January to find out about upcoming shifts. When she called them, they said they were taking a longer break, and to call back at end of Jan. In mid-Jan a mutual friend asked her how her job-hunting was going. Apparently the owners had decided to close the cafe and didn’t bother telling the staff.

[@HealingSwordsman]

"Clock out"!? Man cant even give a paid break to someone you just fired.

[@chrism2966]

A heads up, in case you are still a loyal and supportive employee in any sized company : Nobody cares.

[@Greenwren]

The first one is even worse because if they have a one month notice for Feb 1st, then the message was sent out on Jan 1st. Soooo that's a great New Year's Day "gift" 😬

[@richb1576]

Imagine seeing this email Hi everybody. Normally we cant send emails after death but they are making an exception this time. Theres no way I would want anybody to work extra hard in my memory while not being allowed to share those memories with each other under threat of being fired.

[@hannayoung9657]

My husband had colleague who died, the boss asked who needed go home and take a day off , paid off course and next day they had special coffee break and talks.

[@RobertLeighJames92]

When a boss says I can't pay you extra now but maybe in the future. Nope! Absolutely not!

[@ExestentialCrisis]

Regarding the last one - I was a *customer* at a chain restaurant and they came in and shut it down while we were eating. "This location is closed as of now. Leave at once." No box for the meal to at least take it home. I felt horrible for the employees!! What an absolutely crappy way to treat them. But it is apparently quite standard in the restaurant industry. One of my former employers would suspend an employee "pending investigation". Then call them 1-2 days later and fire them over the phone. It was their policy to not terminate anybody in person.

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

Before I joined The Nhs, I was working for a shirt factory. We knew we were in trouble when The VAT man turned up one morning. One of the partners had buggered off to Australia, with all the money.

[@Ben-Askins]

That is wild

[@NavaSDMB]

"If you talk to each other about what a jackass I'm being you may get fired" doesn't produce stress, does it? I think the key point for that one was the words *clock out,* that they were worried about having to pay people for their mental breaks rather than giving an actual half-shit about their mental health.

[@brettshaff8772]

We went out for COVID. Very first day remote and we're in all-day training. At one point, my cat jumps in my lap. Instructor coo's. I introduce cat and put her down. Ten minutes later, instructor's cat jumps on her desk. She introduces it and puts it down. A short time after that, one guy's wife came in to kiss him goodbye. Next day we get an all-division email from some high level jackass who was watching our class, noting these events and threatening people with termination if they continue to happen.

[@edeledeledel5490]

I am surprised more high-level jackasses don't get a bunch of fives (British expression)

[@missflowerpower8724]

First story… heaven forbid “gym owner” let his employees know he is selling his business. What he wanted was all hands at his beck and call without anyone going elsewhere. 😡 Last story… a few years ago, at Christmas time, one of our most popular restaurants closed overnight with no notice. I sat in traffic watching one employee after another park, walk up, read the lame notice on the door, try the door, and peel out and leave. So very CRUEL!!!

[@Dee-pv8cy]

Had something similar to the dead colleague one - except in our case it was an industrial accident. Several of us witnessed aspects of it. The company was forced to do a bunch of stuff they didn’t want to by HSE. They were also taken to court over it.

[@TheStuartGibson]

A local pub close to where I grew up, one of their young barmaids died. They put a post up saying they were so sad about the loss. 2 days later, they put a post up. "With a heavy heart, about X member who passed away, we need to advertise for their role" it's Northern Ireland, people are buried in 3 days, this person was not even buried and they had to follow up with the next post by advertising the poor person's job

[@SkaterBlades]

I will say, at least they acknowledged them and if the pub was struggling or the manager was being pushed by their managers if it was part of a chain, it's totally understandable to hire new staff so quickly. It's not super sensitive but not knowing their situation it's at least decent to acknowledge their staff member who passed

[@TheStuartGibson]

@@SkaterBlades no it was a local run pub where the main owner stole lots of things from his former employer to help fund the opening of the pub, their grandkids run the pub but preferred to come in and drink rather than work, so instead of them chipping in

[@greebo6549]

On a practical level… it’s not likely she’ll be able to return to work, so what needs to be done needs to be done sooner rather than later

[@TheStuartGibson]

@@greebo6549 there was a big kick up. Why didn't the people who were supposedly running the bar not step in for a few days, they just sat drinking as usual

[@SuprousOxide]

I don't see the problem, they needed to fill the position. Unless you expect them to close the whole bar in mourning

[@slackerman9758]

I mean, you could say good news bad news if firing people, if the good news was that you each get a million dollars…

[@jimwormmaster]

That last one happened to me at my last job. Regional kanager came during the weekend so we could show him the ropes of the day to day, as they were supposedly ramping up...then we get there on Monday to uhaul trucks packing everything up, even the cubicles. Our severance was literally just getting paid for the full day. But I do thank them for one thing. If i hadn't gotten laid off from there, I wouldn't have found my current job, that I love.

[@ianh9311]

I was retrenched with that phrase - the good news was we where being paid out our holiday pay, the bad news was the office was being closed immediately, like in "don't bother handing in your keys, the locksmith is in changing the locks as we speak. Please pack up your personal belongings and leave within 30 minutes as I have to leave for an appointment!" ... the really good news is the news had got around and we arrived home to calls offering us new jobs from recruitment agencies (this was in the days before mobile phones). PS. Head office was similarly closed a few weeks later and they didn't get their holiday pay ...

[@Double_A-Ron]

In the movie Nobody, the main character abruptly closes his metal shop with no notice. Chaos ensued shortly after. lol

[@richardlincoln886]

1:57 The I've got good news and bad news is right out of 'The Office' David Brent literally uses that line re his promotion and the team's redundancy. It's 'meant' to be a sitcom.

[@coffeedrinker88]

I'm like Ben; I hate the use of "we're family" by management. The third example, the email starts of "Associates". Then pulls out the "we're family" when they want people to work more. I have never started an email to the family with 'Associates."

[@Sylvander1911]

That last one happens more than you'de like to think. Usually it's bankruptcy and suddenly the creditors are putting the padlock on. Often customers who have items on order, or in for repair have to wait months to get stuff back.

[@rachaelthorpe3469]

The last happened to my mum over 20 years ago, (worked in a lampshade factory, family owned until they sold )but they got wind of it. So everyone started to make lampshades for themselves, family and friends and went through all the materials and decided on which ones they wanted to take home with them. New management only came near once a week if that.

[@billybob4274]

The last one reminds me of a solar place I worked at a couple years ago. Was there for 2 months before they shut down. Never says during the interview that they were having money issues. Found out my first day about the money issues, and they struggled to make payroll all 2 months. Was supposed to have a company email set up, IT never did, and one evening they sent out a company wide email saying doors will be closed for good the next day. Since I didn't have a company email and wouldn't check it after hours after, I showed up for work. Hundreds of people with no job, and didn't have the balls to say anything during work hours.

[@darrennew8211]

I had a real estate management company shut down, and the employees showed up on Saturday to give the keys to the new renters. The owner had emptied the bank accounts (including rent collected but not paid to owners and security deposits), and fled the country. He took the furniture and the *wall fixtures* (light switches, electric sockets, etc) with him. Holy moly.

[@NettersNetwork]

One of my first jobs I was actually the manager of a uniform shop and as I was standing at the counter on a quiet day reading the paper, some people from the head store came in with a group of other people and said you should start looking at the one ads, this place is closed as of now. Then they started packing up the store. I called another store that I spoke to frequently and asked them if anything like that was going on with them as well, and they said yeah a few of us got hit and no one told us beforehand. So I had to call my other three employees to tell them they're out of a job. And if that doesn't take the piss, our last checks bounced too.

[@Khaltazar]

A good business when closing who want to keep help until the moment they close offer a package to people who stay. For example, if you're losing a contract and you need to have people to transfer data to the next company that won it, you don't just pay them until the day of closing, you give them a nice severance package. For example, stay on to help us knowing you'll lose your job, but you'll get 6 months of pay and benefits to help you in the gap of looking for another job.

[@edeledeledel5490]

My firm did something a little sneakier than that - they were making people redundant, and made the offer of letting people go immediately with 3 months salary, or staying on working out their three months notice. Some people stayed on working, but a lot left immediately to look for new jobs; at the end of the three months, nearly all of the people that stayed on found that there was enough work for them to stay on indefinitely... I suspect management tipped the wink to people they wanted to keep that they were likely to have a job at the end of the three months, and effectively just got rid of the workers they didn't like...

[@Khaltazar]

@@edeledeledel5490 - That is very sneaky. I would of taken the 3 months pay and looked for another job. I bet they were also checking to see which employees were loyal drones who love the job (crazy live to work people) and which would jump ship for another place or are the work to live people who just put their 40 hours in and leave. They wanted to keep the people who devote their life to work and will gladly work overtime and work weekends too all for free.

[@edeledeledel5490]

@@Khaltazar It was a tech firm, and it wasn't that bad a firm: I worked there for 36 years, so it obviously wasn't that bad. I think they wanted to keep the people who were good technically, to ensure a good competent technical product.

[@cate9540]

That first boss was too gutless to look the people he was firing in the eye while he did it.

[@shezza66]

I once started at a company and they told me of the story of them moving whilst a colleague was on leave. They left a note for him to find them if he could. I didn’t last long at that job due to their attitude.

[@NettersNetwork]

At one of my last jobs, they had three meetings booked for staff members. One of my co-workers asked me if I had any of the meetings on my calendar and I said no. I figured whatever these meetings were maybe I would be scheduled for the next day because sometimes they did things like that, schedule meetings on two different days to get all the staff. Turned out that every single one of those meetings were a good twenty employees and once the people were in the room they were told this is your last day, come up to the front to get your paycheck and get out. Fortunately I was never called into one of those meetings and got to keep my job

[@SkaterBlades]

It's a privilege for companies to have gifted and skilled staff, people who've mastered their craft no matter what it is they do. There's always other companies doing the same things, there's only one of you. Also with the way hiring works these days with the tools recruiters use, it's sheer dumb luck they got you in the first place

[@davinasquirrel7672]

Recruitment these days is totally insane. Apparently, a large hardware chain runs a kind of hunger games to thin the herd. The drop in the quality of their staff over the last few years has been noticeable.

[@garystein8610]

The last one happened to me twice, under very different circumstances. #1) I was customer service for a candy importer. Everyone showed up to locked doors and a note saying that, due to illegal business practices, the owners were arrested and the business shut down. #2 was a chain restaurant that closed during the night. All workers were met with locked doors and a sign saying, "This location is permanently closed. Please visit one of our other locations" with a list of other restaurants.

[@madmax6220]

The one about the firing of the two associates. Why can’t they offer more pay? They just freed up two hole salaries which could be split over the remaining associates.

[@churchofpos2279]

When I hear the term, "we are family.'" I think immediately, Yup, a dysfunctional one.😂

[@ricksmith3779]

I always wonder "who's uncle Ernie?"

[@Teskothemad]

I wirked at a company that said we were family about 20 tones a day it was said so often even employees were going "why are they saying this so much ' it's now a massive red flag to me

[@katiehatfield2930]

I was a server at friendlys in college. I ended up with a back problem that required PT and left me unable to walk for awhile. I was in the ER 5 times in 1 week, and still have problems with my back to this day (back in PT, multiple cortisone injections, spinal nerve ablation). The friendlys told me that the doctors notes didnt cover 1 day and i was scheduled and was a no call no show and was fired. I literally couldnt walk, but apparently the 1 day gap in drs notes that i didnt even realize left friendlys with their hands tied -.-

[@jkrolling96]

The one where the colleague passed away was by far the worst one ! As cowardly as the last one is its just a business at the end of the day; in comparison to an actual person passing away its almost impossible for me to comprehend how that “manager” a person could even think of the message they sent. That is full on psychopathy and the tact you try and intimidate people into not talking shows they knew they were fundamentally wrong but have no regard for people.

[@Jen-iy7lq]

Epic rant. My condolences to the team for their loss and for having such a clown fest of a Mgmt team.

[@josephruddofficial]

I can’t believe they just closed the company like that 😡

[@Ben-Askins]

It's just cowardly

[@WarpigA23]

I'd say there's a good chance they won't get their last paychecks.

[@erikeide5407]

I've seen Ben read some utterly ridiculous stories, but I've NEVER seen him as angry as he was about the dead coworker. To enrage such an affable guy is really a feat.

[@Baldorcete]

Last one happened to me. Doors closed, locks changed, twenty people figuring what to do next on the street. We involved a sindícate (In Spain) and made him pay.

[@laurence029]

"The privilege of working here"? Dude, it's your privilege to have me work for you, I can quit whenever I want. Good luck finding someone new who does work for 2 and get paid for 1!

[@SkaterBlades]

I feel so glad that my management team treats me like they were lucky to get me. I'm terrified that when i leave I'll be stuck with a shitty boss (i like my job and I'm very good at it - sometimes out performing people who have 10+ more years on it than me but my pay is shit for how much i do)

[@llljustcallhimdave]

@@SkaterBlades > my pay is shit for how much i do That is why your management loves you, you are doing more than you are paid for. As soon as you have on off day, you do a normal days work, they will act like you are the worst worker in the world

[@ChristianY-hj9wr]

I showed up to work and the lights were out and we were told the company was moving to Colorado and we would receive 1 weeks severance. We were beyond pissed!! Yes in America.

[@Cassiopea525]

The only good news that would counter being fired is also getting a huge payout that means I’d be mire than fine while looking for the next job, and likely have a good chunk leftover even if it took me a year to find a new job.

[@edeledeledel5490]

The first example, If I worked there, all the gym machines might start developing a few serious faults over the redundancy. 2nd example - is it possible to threaten staff not to discuss something?

[@erinaporter1985]

A business my wife used to work for went under and didn't bother to tell anyone until after the manager turned up one morning to find the locks had been changed and a repo man hoped into the work car and drove off leaving him standing there stranded. Most employees had seen the writing on the wall and left already (like my wife did) and it turned out the employers had been gambling/spending everything away since it opened and had not paid the employees income tax (it's automatically deducted from wages and supposed to be paid to government but they kept it and spent it) so employees had issues with tax returns/loan applications etc after that as it showed up as a debt in their name. Turns out the employers (a married couple) were con artist scammers who had sunk a church in massive debt after they got there hands on the books and done the "open a business, get everything on credit, stop paying it back and pocket all they can before it goes tits up.

[@eggchipsnbeans]

Surely with the last one, there was some sort of criminality going on

[@pjaypender1009]

Chains do this all the time.

[@danielgwillym9339]

That last one is like alan partridge when he doesn't get his second series and lock the staff in as he leaves

[@G.G.8GG]

It's amazing how many folks think they have done their sympathetic duty when they tell you, "Susie wouldn't have wanted you to xxxxxxxxxx. " Really? You're going to school this grieving person who was close to the departed, about what they would have wanted? Another one: just saying, "Sorry for your loss. " The deceased is not a "loss." They have a name, they had a life, they meant something to people. They aren't a generic statistic on a piece of paper.

[@Finch1412]

The last one is like what happened to a local hairdressers near me. One day the staff showed up and the place was locked up. Turns out the owner had just disappeared and had abandoned the place. I understand it was due to financial difficulties the business was in - so that explains the staff being blindsided when the owner did a runner and they found themselves out of a job all of a sudden. Not good though of course.

[@nrellis666]

On the last story, I'm sure the entire workforce would have had personal items stored at work and I'm also sure they can strip the office much faster than the removal crew

[@lilfizz1619]

My main problem with the first one is that it's so lengthy, I probably wouldn't read it all and would have no idea I'd been laid off

[@TmOnlineMapper]

I mean I can kindaaaaa understand why you wouldn't tell your staff (all bullshit reasons anyways), but not even telling them that tomorrow they don't need to come in after the store has closed... WTF I'm so happy that I live in a country where that is so beyond illegal...

[@WlmaAlexender-zl6nx]

Ben, you are missing that they believe the employees are just slaves, are used to treating them like that, believe they are morally justified, and as such the idea of consequences is completely unthinkable.

[@vahvahdisco]

The company where the colleague died - I hope the workforce all quit at the same time and then sued them !

[@streetcop157]

He did this January 1st… happy new year your all fired

[@ange4048]

I had almost the same situation as the last story but I had called to get my hours and the phone was disconnected… thankfully I was able to get my old job back the same day.

[@bluegreenash]

the "good" news isn't good news...except for the boss

[@strawberrykatnz]

I got the third one where someone was fired and they sent an email notification out to the entire team saying he'd been let go because he was not being a teamplayer and 'part of the family'. I actually messaged my direct manager and told her I felt that email was not only indignant but completely unnecessary. I asked what the point of it was and she said, "because everyone has to understand that we're a family" and I said, "I don't believe 'family' is the right word, I would say, 'team'" and she said, "well we all have to be teamplayers so we just wanted to make sure everyone knew." I said, "We all know. I personally don't understand why he was fired because he was nothing but a good colleague while working with me. As someone who has been here a long time and considered a 'veteran', I think public embarrassment is totally indignant if you are all choosing to let someone go. An all staff announcement is totally inappropriate and frankly, not at all professional. How would you feel if you were terminated and an email like this was written about you?" And she said, "OK, I see where you're coming from." And I said, "Yeah, so go and tell XXXX that he needs to do better with management emails. This is totally unprofessional and I don't expect to see another email like this again if someone is let go." Yeah, they never did that again.

[@robertfoulkes1832]

You are misusing the word "indignant". Check it's correct meaning. I think you mean ignorant or inappropriate.

[@russelljackson8153]

"We're not keeping any staff" I quit immediately. Good luck with the business tanking.

[@kathyrosen2593]

We had a corporate reorg and the IT team had to reapply for our positions. Not a merger or acquisition, just let's shake everything up.

[@kevinthurlow8055]

A company I worked for informed the IT Helpdesk staff that they were going to fire three and keep one, and outsource any other work. So they had to apply for their own jobs. A senior manager rang IT at 6 pm to find everyone had gone home. When he queried it, he was told, "You're going to sack us all, so we stopped doing unpaid overtime." One advantage of your own IT team is that they're in the same building...

[@ExestentialCrisis]

​@@kevinthurlow8055 Outsourcing our Help Desk has been the biggest nightmare!! They are now referred to as the Unhelpful Desk and us second level support teams have to continually apologize and find ways to work around their ignorance. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦

[@kirjorjos]

Imo, the only way you should be allowed to use good news and bad news if the bad news is you're firing everyone is if the good news is another job offer with better benefits and/or higher pay.

[@infernox1099]

Truly the dumbest announcement is no announcement

[@illusionuk]

I am unsure in which country the gym takeover occurred, but in the United Kingdom, you cannot just fire everyone if someone else buys your business. The new owner has to take on the existing staff under the Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE)

[@bcase5328]

I hope these bosses received a series of quitting notices over the following months.

[@arthurdaniel1046]

I know the last one happened in Connecticut at the 99 restaurant. They close the doors with no warning to the employees.

[@neilyb4590]

When any body says family I ask which one Manson or Adam’s I don’t get the job offer funny that

[@nethkenm]

Literally the last one happens all the time. Happened in 2 dozen chain restaurants just a few days ago in my city.

[@Willoshi]

Situations like that last one ought to result in the employees being awarded a special form of unemployment benefits equal to 100% of their pay, for twice to 3x as long... just to make the company suffer a little financially.. That ain't right.

[@demonicturtle5589]

Have you ever had someone try to have you read something on their phone but they can't hold it steady? That's what it's like reading the highlights here.

[@Tommi-C]

That third one, I would have left straight away after telling them to go eff themselves.

[@Ramon609]

If some employer says there is good news and bad news and the bad news is me being fired the only good news i'd accept is that he is giving me 100 million euro's

[@pjaypender1009]

A restaurant in my hometown did that last one. People just showed up and the fixtures were just being hauled out.

[@brantnuttall]

2:05 do you know the good news and bad news from David Brent in The Office? Just hilarious!

[@rainmeh4255]

Me: great, now I need to contact the job centre as I just lost a job

[@just_passing_through]

What do you mean you can’t pay your remaining staff any more to pick up the shifts of the two workers you just sacked? You literally just stopped paying two whole salaries. Of course you can pay your staff for the extra shifts by simply using the money you are no longer paying those two staff.

[@mechanoid5739]

It should be not illegal to slap bosses like that!

[@sinjull2256]

The first one - just do a big meeting with everyone! Second one - Do a meeting! If needed close the fucking store! Third one - Work is not a family! If you are to cover a shift you will need to get paid, not do it free! Fourth one - Never joke about quitting or leaving! Fifth one - If the closage is planned, then you have to tell them. If it is on the day I can understand it.

[@cmorris9494]

We had a meeting with the ceo. He talked about changes. We thought he was retiring and the sons were taking over. Apparently my coworker was transitioning to a different gender. Not the change i was expecting.

[@shipmove]

I think we should be told whether these are USA, UK or other jurisdictional cases, as many of these would not hold up in a UK tribunal. Otherwise, love the channel.

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

Every time I come here, I confirm that working for the Nhs was a bloody good idea!

[@jim6690]

Is this trope about the work place being "family", common? Because frankly, the thought that people I work with are family seems very weird to me. One might develop a close relationship with a particular individual one works with, sure. But I really find this thing kind of sad. If you consider your workplace, as a group, family, I can only conclude that you've never known a true family.

[@Kingminer13579]

6:15 The fact that they can’t afford any extra pay is a bunch of bullshit. There is now 2 people’s worth of pay on the table.

[@pistolannie6500]

1: " I'm EXCITED...to see HIS vision ....blah blah blah.." And, Oh yeah, He doesn't Need any of you...sooo CARRY ON & keep ME running for the next month til the New owner, who I'm SO EXCITED for...takes over & gives ya all the boot! And will likely Call U Out & Shame U, if U DARE go ahead & get another job b4 I'm done w/U & the new owner drops U.

[@scottsmartky]

Gee, I wonder why those 2 guys you fired had such poor attitudes? It's not like in just your statement about firing them you had to buy the red flag store completely out of stock. Good grief Can you quit a job you never had just reading their response to firing someone? Because I yelled "I quit too!" and a few expletives when you read that out.

[@jayaitch2194]

In the UK? TUPE? Proper redundancy notice and pay?

[@joannalewis5279]

Best channel on KZbin. Give us a job.

[@victoria-janeerfort6934]

I’m genuinely curious, if a company is bought over and the employees are left redundant, surely the employer should assist in finding them other work? I feel like it’s a silly question/wishful thinking but isn’t that the right thing to do?

[@datafilehunter1682]

Sounds like that "1 month" notice may have been sent on New Year's Eve.

[@Simon_PieMan]

#1 is from David Brent’s playbook.

[@LoriKopf]

Was that last place from Hooters in Florida, USA? 😆

[@Ben-Askins]

😂😂😂😂