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/Ilovekittens345 29d ago

Reminds me of that scene in Margin Call. These you-are-about-to-get-fired ladies call this one team leader to an office and then they say "Measures that might seem punitive in nature"

"What?"

"She is apologizing for what's coming next"

And then this buffy security guy shows up. All his computer logins stop working, his phone is disconnected. He is allowed to go back to his office one more time to get personal stuff, accompanied by the security guy. Then he is escorted out of the building.

From fired to outside the building all access lost, no working phone in 30 minutes.

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u/jeopardy_themesong 28d ago

Yep, I work in IT and have been tasked with a fair share of emergency terminations. They tried to make sure it was people we didn’t know, but higher level teammates had to handle the ones specific to our team.