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F%*$!! That had to be the reaction of former Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz after she was unceremoniously fired this week.
Bartz tapped out, via her iPad:
“I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward.
Fortunately, I’ve never been fired, although if I had refused to write this piece, which was personally requested by our editor-in-chief, I might have been. Instead, let’s take a look at some of the worst ways to be fired, shall we?
Any employer worth his or her salt will encourage an employee to hit the road face-to-face, in person. But the Internet abounds with stories of employees being canned via email, Facebook, even Twitter. In the age of electronic communications, employees—and employers—can cross the line in so many ways, in the digital as well as the real world.
My own anecdote: back in the day, a person I may or may not have worked with (*ahem*) had a long, prolonged conversation via AOL’s Instant Messenger with their immediate superior, which apparently became more and more heated, albeit virtually. Not surprisingly, the woman’s neighbors were unable to tell when the woman’s online chat turned from productive, to passionate, to well, pre-nuclear.
Suddenly, the woman shot upright, marched over to her boss’s desk, and let him have it: loud, long, and profane. She was soon collecting her things. Most of her co-workers still has no idea what was going on until the story came out a bit later.
That certainly can’t be the best firing story that involves technology. Has anyone you know ever been fired by FaceTime, or Skype? What about via an iPad? What’s the wackiest story you’ve heard? We’ve included a few in the next few pages, but feel free to chime in in the comments section, below.
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1. Fired via Email
Employees at the Fort Worth headquarters got messages Tuesday morning saying: “The work force reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately, your position is one that has been eliminated.”
“If I put myself in their shoes, I’d say, ‘Didn’t they have a few minutes to tell me?'” said Derrick D’Souza, a management professor at the University of North Texas, as quoted by the AP.
2. Fired via SMS
3. Fired via fax
4. Fired via Facebook
On a more serious note, a worker’s right to complain on Facebook(Opens in a new window) went all the way to the National Labor Relations Board earlier this year.
5. Fired via Twitter
6. Fired via Press Release
7. Fired via Instant Message
We’ve also included the graphic from isweatbutter.blogspot.com. We haven’t confirmed it.
8. Fired via Text Message, Again
And let’s end this with a quote from Charlie Sheen:
“”I got a text or something. Here’s another thing — these guys are such yellow cockroaches that they didn’t even have the decency to call me,” Shen told(Opens in a new window) Access Hollywood. “I put 5 bill[ion] in their cheap suit pockets and another half a bil’ in what’s-his-cheese’s pockets and this is the…respect I get? It’s just deplorable and they should be ashamed of themselves!”
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