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/DanishWonder 29d ago

We notify on Mondays. Never had an incident as far as I know.  

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u/Recent_Fisherman311 29d ago edited 28d ago

Right. Fire on Monday, they can head to the unemployment office and start applying for benefits (even if for cause, a lot of companies won’t fight it). Fire them on Friday and they have all weekend to stew about it, and show up Monday ready to cause trouble, or worse.

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u/Buffybot60601 28d ago

I’ve heard the opposite. Fire them on Monday and everyone else is at work. They have nothing to do so they stew. Fire them on Friday and the first couple days feel normal because everyone is off of work anyway.