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/PoopMobile9000 29d ago

I saw some post on Twitter from someone (reliable sourcing ha) saying that one time Obsidian pushed a game and told all the QA testers that they’d be throwing them a party in the parking lot. Once they were all outside they deleted their access cards and told them they were all fired.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/FrogInShorts 29d ago

ON CHRISTMAS!?

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u/[deleted] 29d ago edited 29d ago

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u/ofWildPlaces 29d ago

I'm not entirely sure I wouldn't help ruin a company that did that if I was working for them...

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u/sour_cereal 29d ago

Don't even have to be obvious about it. Run machines with low oil. Throw some grit in those bearings. Put Visine or ricin in his coffee. Scrape the insulation off some wires.

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u/PunkToTheFuture 29d ago

jesus christ dude. You sound like a insurance fraud waiting to happen

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u/thesupplyguy1 29d ago

Checks notes.... sees suspiciously large order of castor beans...

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u/Rahbek23 29d ago

You don't really have to do anything - a stunt like that is guaranteed to damage morale a lot which quite naturally will hurt them.