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Fired Via Instant Message

Posted by michael on from the new-low dept.

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."

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  1. IM by wed128 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I try to avoid instant messaging whenever possible...except for sending phone numbers and such, it's impossible to have a conversation...points are too easy to misrepresent, etc...

  2. FAILURE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YOU FAIL IT

  3. Re:Hitler by U.I.D+754625 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's up with the new user comment's page? Is it good or is it whack?

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  4. sir by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    please give url of this new page of which you speak

    1. Re:sir by U.I.D+754625 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Check out anyone's user history, like cmdrtaco's. The tables all new and badly organized.

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  5. Ready, AIM, Fire by homeobocks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ping michael
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  6. You're wrong by SpanishInquisition · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He's a GERMAN hero

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  7. How is SCO .... by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    going to fire they workers when they go bankrupt ... ... vi talk? :)

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  8. Re:And their response: by after · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In A.D. 2101
    War was beginning.
    Captain: What happen ?
    Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
    Operator: We get signal.
    Captain: What !
    Operator: Main screen turn on.
    Captain: It's You !!
    Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
    Cats: All your base are belong to us.
    Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
    Captain: What you say !!
    Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
    Cats: HA HA HA HA ....
    Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
    Captain: You know what you doing.
    Captain: Move 'zig'.
    Captain: For great justice.

  9. Re:Fearing Job Cuts by Sivaram_Velauthapill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you go with a socialist view, like mine, the only way to do that is to eliminate render the capitalist class obsolete. A way to do that is for employees to become employers. That is to say, every worker will be the owner of the company.

    But there is a problem. Capitalism is an elitist system where a few hoarde huge wealth. This essentially means that the majority of the people will only own a minority of the wealth (and consequently the corporations). More Americans, for example, own companies than ever (if you count people investing in stock markets and employee share ownership plans), but unfortunately they only own a fraction.

    To recap, the ideal solution is for employees to be employers (i.e. employees own the company). But that seems to have little impact under an elitist system like capitalism. So I'm not really sure hot to accomplish what is required...

    Sivaram Velauthapillai

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  10. Re:..all your job are belong to us... by cball2k · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... it had to be said...

    wOOt.

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  11. Re:Wouldn't it be cheaper by Obfiscator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Okay, so how does he recompile?

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