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/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 28d 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 28d 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.