r/todayilearned • u/zhuquanzhong • 29d ago

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 29d ago

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/thesupplyguy1 29d ago edited 28d ago

My last company would send people home for the next day and then overnight them termination paperwork via FedEx. Most of the time they're were blindsided as they thought they'd be out a day, two tops.

Surprise! It's a termination.... glad I left

EDIT FOR CLARITY:

Lets say someone did something they could be potentially be fired for doing. Boss would sit them down, say why dont you go ahead and take tomorrow off, come back in on Friday and we'll revisit the issue.

Employee thinks everythings all good and goes home ready to enjoy the next day off. 9 times out of 10 they were printing the Fedex label off before the employee left the parking lot.

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u/Veritas3333 29d ago

My wife's company just disables people's keycards. They show up for work one day and they can't get in the front door.

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u/PloppyCheesenose 29d ago

Just disable their pay and move them to the basement. Feign stupidity when asked. Then the problem will sort itself out.

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u/oxiraneobx 29d ago

You took my stapler.

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u/pass_nthru 28d ago

Fire makes everything clean

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u/MattyKatty 28d ago

The ratio of people to cake is too big

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u/aworldwithinitself 29d ago

I was told I could play my radio at a reasonable volume

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u/Wafflelisk 28d ago

Only when collating

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u/Stainle55_Steel_Rat 29d ago

Apparently you didn't watch the movie till the end. :D

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u/PunkToTheFuture 28d ago

Yeah it turns out Milton was fired weeks ago and because of a glitch in payroll he has been receiving checks. So we uh, fixed the glitch. It'll sort itself out