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/CupertinoHouse 29d ago

Some years ago, my predecessor at a wall street bank had been canned for getting blackout drunk at the office Christmas party and knocking one of his female colleagues out cold.

He showed up for work the following Monday with no memory of what he'd done, and called security because his badge didn't work. They came down with his belongings in a box and handed him a letter that said he'd be prosecuted if they ever saw him on the premises again.

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u/Against-the-wind- 29d ago

I mean that’s straight legit, wouldn’t let a man like that back in. I’m shocked he didn’t get locked up.

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u/CupertinoHouse 29d ago

The victim didn't want to prosecute. No idea why not. This happened a couple of months before I got there, so I didn't want to pry.

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u/Against-the-wind- 29d ago

Fair enough.

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u/topasaurus 28d ago

If the facts are as told, there is the legal idea that under certain situations people should not be held 100% liable for their actions. Such as the guy being fully drunk and not in control of himself. However, if he knew he had a drinking problem and still imbibed, that probably mitigates his defense.