Wednesday, June 4, 2003
Getting Fired by SMS? Ouch!
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 10:00 AM
"The UK's largest personal injury claims firm, Accident Group, has sacked 2,400 people - many by text message - after its parent company Amulet Group announced on Friday that it would go into administration. Staff with company mobile phones received a series of text messages, warning them that salaries would not be paid. Manchester-based Amulet Group said its subsidiary had to cease trading because it could not sustain its "continual battles with the insurance industry" and after "the sudden failure of a banking partner to support the company"."
Could you imagine getting pink-slipped virtually? If you need to let someone go from their job, I think it's incredibly disrespectful to do it any other way than face to face.
Could you imagine getting pink-slipped virtually? If you need to let someone go from their job, I think it's incredibly disrespectful to do it any other way than face to face.
