Submitter says: "CPI Corp used inter-office message system to let employees know they were out of a job when they closed Sears and Picture Me portrait studios."
Submitter says: "CPI Corp used inter-office message system to let employees know they were out of a job when they closed Sears and Picture Me portrait studios."
There are some people and jobs out there that it just feel too good to get away from. In this case it was a tyrannical boss who flouted the rules and tried to make someone work after firing them. Quitting a frustrating situation and having a "screw this, I'm out" moment can lead us to reevaluating ourselves and moving on to something better. Bosses can suck, like this incompetent manager who forbid overtime and had it totally backfire.
Jim Knight is the (former) head chef of The Plough, a pub in Oxfordshire, UK. Recently, Jim was fired for what he believes was an unjust reason: he wanted to take vacation time to spend with his infant daughter.
When Jim found out that he'd been sacked, he remembered a small but useful fact that the restaurant had neglected to account for:
Jim was the employee who created The Plough's official Twitter account, making him the only one with access to it...
This was a memo actually issued to the employees of QC Marts, an Iowa-based chain of convenience stores, back in March. The owner of the chain announced a contest in which employees would guess which of their number would be the next to get the proverbial ax. Four employees, who for some reason felt uncomfortable turning on their coworkers like rabid wolves, quit in protest. QC Marts denied them unemployment benefits, arguing they had quit voluntarily, until a judge ruled against the chain yeste