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Company Accidentally Fires Entire Staff Via Email
redletterdave writes with an amusing tale of missent email. From the article: "On Friday, more than 1,300 employees of London-based Aviva Investors walked into their offices, strolled over to their desks, booted up their computers and checked their emails, only to learn the shocking news: They would be leaving the company. The email ordered them to hand over company property and security passes before leaving the building, and left the staff with one final line: 'I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and wish you all the best for the future. 'This email was sent to Aviva's worldwide staff of 1,300 people, with bases in the U.S., UK, France, Spain, Sweden, Canada, Italy, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Finland and the Netherlands. And it was all one giant mistake: The email was intended for only one individual."
It will now be two people leaving the company!
Those responsible should be sacked!
How many "How you really feel" comments went around during this time that people are going to now have to live with.
That's pretty cold to send a termination email and not bother including their name in the message.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Never hire an employee named "allstaff".
That would be the worst.
First email: You're fired!
Second email: Oops. It was all a mistake. Only one person was supposed to be fired.
Third email: That person is you.
This is not the first time that Alan 'Call me Al' Staff has caused this problem.
Ho! Haha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!
To be fair, TFA is titled "Aviva Investors Accidentally Fires Entire Company Via Email [FULL TEXT]." But, TFA links to another article as its source. But that source isn't the origin of the story either. It came from Reuters. Honestly, if you're submitting a story to a news aggregator like Slashdot, take the time to send a link for the ORIGINAL story...
I accidentally the entire company
That would be the worst.
First email: You're fired!
Oh, yah? Well screw you all! I never liked this company and pissed in the coffee daily. And Mr. CEO, I am banging your wife.
Second email: Oops. It was all a mistake. Only one person was supposed to be fired.
Uh....
Third email: That person is you.
Damn...
SNAFU is an apt description for doing anything "legal" via email or via the internet for that matter. Unfortunately it is becoming all too much the "norm" and billions are getting bilked from the systems every year. The free exchange of information is still all this is truly suitable for. Anything digital can be faked, intercepted, etc and after all this time there is no such thing as a "secure server", never has been, never will be, not functioning and connected to the internet at least (just to skip all the "disconnected, slagged, sealed in concrete and sunk to the bottom of the Marianas Trench type lines).
OK, everybody, ignore the ancient noise above and get back to making money off this stupidity!
Human Resource Departments: the single biggest brake on the World's economy. The reason for the lack of productivity, innovation and creativity in most large enterprises.
It's a job that nobody with a brain ever wanted to do. Actually, it's a job that nobody ever wanted to do. Nobody ever grows up wanting to work in HR. The only people who do work in HR, are those who have failed. And they bear a grudge.
Which explains why their inhumanity creates situations like this one, and so many similar situations. With the technology currently available, real managers can manage. HR staff need to be fired. All of them, everywhere. The world never really needed them in the first place, but there's no justification for having them now.
The first corporation that has the insight to fire all its HR people will wipe the floor with its competition within 5 years. They will have all the advantages of a small business, mixed with the power of a corporation. And they will have MUCH happier, more productive, employees.
I worked for a company whose very first paying customer was named Richard Test. Poor Mr. Test had his account deleted by well-meaning and fastidious secretaries several times. (We'd have just renumbered his account if that ID wasn't used in a zillion other systems.)
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Situation Normal, All Fucked Up. Well, that's what I was taught it meant. And yes it is a SNAFU if your normal procedure for firing an employee is an e-mail. Man, that's fucked up...like being dumped over AOL Instant Messenger.
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took me like 5 tries to get right....I knew "cumming" was wrong, but fuck those captchas can be hard to read
You accidentally what?
The ENTIRE COMPANY!
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
There's two fuckups I see:
1) They send letters with legal weight via e-mail and this is accepted. That's just wrong.
2) They wrote the e-mail so impersonal, without attribution, that 1300 people could mistakenly think they've been let off.
What a shithole company.
I must watch some on Youtube once my boss have left the building!
*bling* "You got mail!"