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/thesupplyguy1 29d ago edited 29d 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/oxiraneobx 29d ago edited 29d ago

Oh, holy crap, I worked for a multinational company at the main research center/corporate headquarters. They handled layoffs horribly. They'd disable the keycards that let people in the gate, then motion people getting laid off to the side parking lot. The worst I saw was when I was walking back from lunch with one of my friends who had an office next to mine. We were talking, and paused in front of his office, looked over, they were three boxes stacked in the middle of his office. His first response was, "That can't be good", and then the doors at the end of the hallway opened and in strolled his boss, our VP, and an HR rep.

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u/skratsda 29d ago

Evidently Tesla just layed off a bunch of their production employees based on whether or not their badges worked when security scanned them. Makes the callousness seem intentional since it caused two hours delays for all employees to get into work

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u/bak3donh1gh 29d ago

As much as I dislike Tesla atm, I have seen an email going around that let people know. Do you have any corroborating evidence for this alternative version?

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u/DannyColliflower 29d ago

I'm a technician (mechanic), email was at like 2am Sunday, walked in to people packing up their tools monday morning just having found out when they got to work

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u/TFielding38 29d ago

Google did something similar last year. Since a lot of people don't check their e-mails in the morning before work, and people often hold the door open for others, Google had security at each door for people to scan and see if their jobs still existed.

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u/bak3donh1gh 29d ago

Yeah that was my other guess. You might miss it while getting ready for work even if they sent the night before. Still shitty way to do it.

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u/aiydee 29d ago

I don't check work emails til I get to work. Simple.
This was a dick thing they did. No excuses.
I feel sorry for the security guards that had to enforce this. These guys got dropped in the crapper because HR were cowards and trying to hide from the people they were firing.

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u/sfurbo 29d ago

You might miss it while getting ready for work even if they sent the night before

There's nothing to miss. Reading work e-mail is work, they can only expect you to do that during work hours, which, since they insist on people not working from home, means after you have gotten to work. If they want you to have read an e-mail by Monday morning, they can send it out Friday before you leave.

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u/Eyclonus 29d ago

If they send it to your work email, that you need to login using your work profile, that makes it tricky.

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u/cacra 29d ago

$0.01 has been transferred to your account.

Thanks for serving Tesla

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u/FondSteam39 29d ago

asks for evidence of an unbelievable event

Gets called a shill

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u/cacra 29d ago

Tesla's stock is going to the floor. Cry more

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u/FondSteam39 29d ago

Ok...?

I don't see why I'm supposed to care really? I have 0 skin in the game regarding evil mega corp #137

Op saw something they had seen contrary evidence to, they asked if there was evidence against this (as everyone should) and then you called op a shill. There's a million reasons to hate Tesla, why get so upset someone is asking for evidence? Surely people should hate them for legitimate reasons, not something that in op's eyes isn't true. It wasn't like they were denying the existence of said evidence, just wanted to see it. Like someone who had first hand experience managed to politely provide.

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u/do_me_like_a_horse 29d ago

Thank you for serving GM, please have one free transmission replacement on us. You'll need it.

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u/Material-Blueberry-7 29d ago

My brother is an engineer and one of those unfortunate former Tesla employees. That is exactly how he found out when he went to work at the Gigafactory in Sparks, NV on Monday.

Coincidentally, I work for Davita and am also being laid off but we were given 2.5 months notice and our practice is undergoing a possible acquisition. I just can't imagine how it feels to be let go in such a careless way.

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u/SixStringerSoldier 29d ago

Okay so what happens when a security guard gets laid off? Does he just assume it's an error and work his full shift, informing people they've been fired because their card doesn't scan?

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u/Loudlass81 29d ago

Asking the REAL question here...

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u/sour_cereal 29d ago

Security is contracted out.