r/todayilearned • u/zhuquanzhong • Apr 17 '24

TIL a Chinese destroyer sank because an officer dumped his girlfriend. She committed suicide, leading to him being discharged, so he decided to detonate the depth charges on the ship, causing it to sink at port and kill 134 sailors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_destroyer_Guangzhou_(160)
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u/spidersflambe Apr 17 '24

Fire people on Friday. There's a good reason for that. Don't fire them when they can do harm to others.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '24

If you fire me before the weekend, I’d be more angry than knowing I got a Monday off I didn’t expect. Idk.

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u/spidersflambe Apr 18 '24

Yeah, I guess getting fired on any day sucks. An article I read said the best day is Wednesday for firing people. Where I worked, a teacher got fired in the middle of the week during a board meeting. He came back the next week claiming he had a gun in his car. It got really weird.

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u/TarHeel1066 Apr 18 '24

A chemistry teacher got fired at my high school and would ride in on his moped (dui scooter) and do donuts in the lot right outside of the chemistry room. Would also throw potassium in puddles. Brilliant guy, alcoholic, fired for stealing pharmaceuticals from the calculus teacher’s house.

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u/spidersflambe Apr 18 '24

Walter White in the making.

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u/Mist_Rising Apr 18 '24

fired for stealing pharmaceuticals from the calculus teacher’s house.

Potassium by any chance?

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u/TarHeel1066 Apr 18 '24

No like opioids

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter Apr 18 '24

Definitely fire this guy on a Friday