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Fired Via Instant Message
JThaddeus writes "Yahoo! news reports that South Korea's third-largest credit card issuer, KEB Credit Service, fired 161 people--a quarter of its workforce--via mobile phone text messages. Hey, at least they got told, right? Afterall, they could have been like Milton."
Permanently.
"You've got fired!"
"...they took ... my ... my Swingline ... and then, they texted me a pink slip ... going to burn the place to the ground ... this is, yes, this is the final straw"
Wouldn't it be cheaper just to tell these people quickly in person? Considering the cost of a text message in some places...
Well at least they saved a tree or two worth of pink slips. Although on Monday there are going to be a few pissed off people that had their phones off all weekend.
You Are Fired!
Sucks to be Corben Dallas!
I am become Troll, destroyer of threads
*Warn*, *Warn*, *Warn*, *Block*!!
The message sent was actually "SRY WE DNT ND U NEMRE KTHX BAI THX 4 WRK HRE".
Where's that middle finger emoticon again?
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"I'm don't know exactly what an AS/400 is, but I'm pretty certain I wouldn't want one up my ass" --Lou
u fired! kekekekekekekeke!!11111
And who can forget the immortal words of Iko 'Jitz' Fujitsu: "Read my fax!"
Well, at least they didn't get it ALL wrong in Back to the Future II... the message was just delivered on cell phones instead of paper.
Where's my pizza rehydrator and hoverboard, anyway?
hi how r u? u gtg
u hv 4hr 2 get ur
stf out of ur dsk
hv a gr8 day cya
I suppose it makes up for the noticeable lack of flying cars...
foxy_lady_18: hi... a/s/l please....:)
BOB: B-) 32/M/_____-___.com
foxy_lady_18: how r u today...
BOB: gr8... how was ur day?
foxy_lady_18: gr8... So you're at work?
BOB: yup
foxy_lady_18: like to slip out and get some coffee?
BOB: Sure... my boss's supposed to be out playing golf today... sucker won't miss me...
foxy_lady_18: sounds like ur Boss's a prick...
BOB: can't find his own dick without a yahoo route map
BOB: sob can't do jacksh*t without me
foxy_lady_18: This is your Boss... You're fired!!
BOB: I hate ppl who say a/s/l
In A.D. 2004
KEB was firing
Worker: What happen?
Cellphone: Somebody set up us the IM.
AIM: We get message.
Worker: What!
AIM: Main screen turn on.
Worker: It's you!!
HR: How are you gentlemen!!
HR: All your jobs are belong to us!
...if I don't have a mobile phone, I wouldn't get fired?
Cheers,
RoadkillBunny
TheBoss: whoops
TheBoss: sorry but ur fired
TheBoss: ill give u good reference tho
* TheBoss sets status to Sorry *
TheBoss:
TheBoss: srry ur mad at me gtg byebye
TheBoss has logged out
The last thing i want on my mobile is a pic of goatse.
Job promotion via e-mail?
...blocked by spam-filter.
"I've been thinking of promoting you from toilet-cleaner to my secretary. You will earn 10 times more than you do now, while working only 30 minutes per day. Reply to this if you are interested. Do not reply if you're not.
-Boss
this is probably the most boring sig in the world
We are sorry to inform you, but your services are no longer necessary to the company. Effective immediately, upon receipt of this message, your remote access to company resources has be&*#A%rE [NO CARRIER]
Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???
+5 Informative - You've been canned.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
What you say?!??
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
I think in other parts of the world its known as an instant message because it arrives at the other phone instantly, where-as here in the uk, o2 delivers it afew hours later because a 160 byte message is oh so traffic intensive.
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Short Message Service, actually.
"You have IM!" *ding* SCO has joined the conversation *ding* DeptOfJustice has joined the conversation
Does that get followed up by
Where's my alimony?
Where's my alimony?
Where's my alimony?
-jokerghost
I didn't want it to come to this, but... I'm breaking up with you, K?
It just wasn't working out; I just couldn't compete with this stupid, ugly green website.
I want my car back, too.
Don't bother trying to come crawling back, we're through.
Like this way of breaking up with you? It's Toni's idea. Savor the sweet, sweet irony.
Admittedly since the company were "personal injury lawyers" nobody could decide whether to feel outraged over the method used or happy that the people lost their jobs...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2949578.stm
Fired by crappest, most rip-off messaging system known to man with a 160 character limit
All you need is 6 characters...
urfyrd
The text message probably went something like this:
Sorry, I had to do it...
Joe Worker: Hi Boss, good weekend?
...
Boss: Err...
Joe Worker: My work mobile (cell) seems to have died this weekend, any chance of a new one?
Imagine the equivalent of the following joke:
The master sergent in Delta Company was a rough, grizzled, nail-biting manly man. He pulled no punches. One day at early morning formation, following his announcements for the day, he added, "By the way, Kelly! Your mother died yesterday."
Poor Kelly just crumbled and had to be carried back to the barracks. The company commander chewed out the MSGT for his lack of tact and for his insensitivity and told him that the next time he had to announce a family death, he had better do it with more subtlety.
The occasion arose about two weeks later. At the end of his morning announcements, he said, "Everyone whose mother is still alive, take one step forward. NOT SO FAST, MILLER!"
depends on whether you use tongue or not...
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
UAF Yhl HAND
UAF="You Are Fired"
Wow, I had a girlfriend? Boy I HAVE been drunk lately!
Send whiskey and fresh horses!
thx 4 teh msg
i jst at teh
GUNS n AMMO
STOR i am stndin
in lobby now l8tr
.deviatefromtheabsolute.
Is that why New Yorkers use their middle finger to ring doorbells?
Our founding fathers removed the guys in charge. Be American. Vote incumbents out.
Uhm, you're supposed to send SMS via the GSM net, not type it into your phone, put a stamp on it and send it via snail mail. Faster and cheaper.
At least they weren't fired in a Slashdot post. Other humiliating geek ways of being fired:
Your employer uploads pinkslip.txt to the CVS tree of the free software project you've been spending all your time on.
Your boss cracks your home machine and leaves the message "J00 ar3 n07 1337. F10R3D!!!!11!1!"
Boss takes you to a fancy Indian restaurant. When the waiter comes, he says "Yes, we're ready to order - by the way, Bob, Mahel here will be replacing you in two days."
They FedEx you a cell phone while you work, a la the Matrix. It rings, and when you answer, a mysterious deep voice tells you, "Look at the hall by the elevator. They're coming for you, Neo". You look, and you see a group of HR people coming to fire your sorry ass, being directed towards your cubicle. Being a geek, you immediately re-enact the scene where the agents(HR people) are trying to hunt Neo(you) while he talks to Morpheus(the mysterious stranger).
You think, "This is it. The thing I have been waiting for all my life - confirmation that I AM the One! Haha, I'm not a loser, suckers!" However all your hopes come crashing to an end when the guy on the phone says "Oh what the hell. You're fired anyway whether they find you or not. I've been leading you on for my own amusement, but now it's gotten boring. Clever hack, eh? btw, you're not The One, you'll never touch Trinity, and you're still just a loser without a job." In desperation you fling yourself out the 10th-floor window to confirm you have super powers or die trying. You die trying. However you prove the hacker wrong on one point when you DO touch Carrie-Anne Moss at the last moment of your life, crushing her to death between you and her motorcycle.
So with just 750 employees, S. Korea's 3rd biggest credit card company has to lay them off, rather than get this apparently extremely productive workforce more work, to scale up the business? What is this, some kind of capitalist purge?
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make install -not war
I always use a stick, that way there's no finger print or DNA left behind!
Donald Trump of Apprentice fame could use some such tricks in the next Apprentice Show coming this fall.....
guys guys guys...
the boss(mr. kim) was on his lunch break, but he left his cellphone on the desk. i was wondering what could be a practical joke to play on my fellow colleagues and, well, ended sending these you've been fired messages. sorry if i scared the fuckin shit out of you.
i'll see you on monday at work.
but at least you'd get formal(/angry/justified) talks or letters. In South Korea, 161 workers just recieved:
ur frd. No jb 4u
n e mor. no $ in
bnk, cnt get cred,
cnt mk chex. Thnx,
sorry, Gd luck!!!!
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This SMS service
is provided by KEB
Credit Service
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In A.D. 2004 marriage was ending.
What happen?
Someone set up us the tent.
We get signal.
What!
Husband not turn on.
It's you!
How are you honey?
All your camels are belong to us.
You are on the way to your moms house.
What you say?
You have no chance to appeal make your time.
For great justice take off every 'burka.'
--- You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad- Neal (not Cowboy) Boortz