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ARTelevision 05-31-2003 05:29 AM

S-A-C-K-E-D...will plunder for pay
 

Pricewaterhouse pays price for poor play.

Remember that job you had? We don't... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Want to hear a good joke? What do you do for a living? Ha Ha Ha.

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2,500 staff sacked by text message
from telegraph.co.uk
31/05/2003


Dozens of former employees looted offices of the personal injury claims firm The Accident Group after being told by text message that they had lost their jobs.

About 2,500 staff were thrown out of work yesterday when their employers' parent company, the Amulet Group, went into receivership.

Offices in Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool were ransacked by staff, who carried off computers and other equipment.

Staff had received three text messages on their mobile phones, warning them that they should not go into work, that their final salaries could not be paid and that a full explanation would be given by e-mail.

At offices, an answer machine message from the administrators, PricewaterhouseCoopers, said: "All staff who are being retained will be contacted today. If you have not been spoken to you are therefore being made redundant with immediate effect."

It added: "Unfortunately there are no funds available to pay the salaries for May."

The message apologised for the nature of the call, adding: "I would have preferred to do this on a face-to-face basis. On the time scale available, this has not proved possible."

Staff were told to make claims to the Department of Trade and Industry for arrears of pay, outstanding holiday pay, pay in lieu of notice and redundancy.

Andy Potton, a claims assessor with the firm, had gone to his office in Speke, Liverpool, because he assumed colleagues would gather there.

He said: "I could hardly believe what I saw. There were people walking out of the office with computers. One chap quite high up in the company had loaded up his car with laptops and driven off."
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Gonna load my lorry up with laptops, baby.
Gonna let the lawyers sort it out.
Oh yeah!

Dragonlich 05-31-2003 05:42 AM

And rightly so. If the company refuses to treat it's employees right, they don't have to treat the company right.

Personally, I was thinking more along the lines of "someone is gonna sue them", but looting the office seems a nice idea too. :)

05-31-2003 07:19 AM

I'm picturing a bunch of old codgers, ties around their foreheads, swords made out of fan-blades, roaming the corridors....

Liquor Dealer 05-31-2003 07:25 AM

To me it sounds as if they were just to chicken shit to face their employees - don't know if looting their offices (shades of Iraq) was the way to get compensation or not but at least they didn't take it lying down.

krwlz 05-31-2003 08:48 AM

Its funny as hell! But its wrong, if I had been fired like that, I am sure I would be pissed...but looting? Nah...

gov135 05-31-2003 08:57 AM

There is a pecking order for compensation from bankrupt and defunct firms. The last on the list who gets to see anything are employees and common stockholders. Any assets a company has remaining go to big creditors.

I don't think the looting was really for financial gain as much as it was a symbolic gesture. Kinda "take that." Although, in the end, the ones really "taking it" are the employees.

The PriceWaterhouse employees should have seen it coming. But I feel so bad for them. Here's a firm of tens of thousands screwed by one office with a few unethical morons. And everyone loses their jobs cause of it.

phredgreen 05-31-2003 09:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Big Julie
I'm picturing a bunch of old codgers, ties around their foreheads, swords made out of fan-blades, roaming the corridors....
hmm...

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http://www.stone-dead.asn.au/movies/...res/13-map.jpg

http://www.stone-dead.asn.au/movies/...res/21-men.jpg

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yeah... i think that was the scene out there.

Antagony 05-31-2003 09:44 AM

Grahahhaggrarah, piracy ahoy! That cracks me up.

Phred's post was quite appropriate too, hehehe.

ARTelevision 05-31-2003 10:07 AM

great response phred!
thanks for the visuals...
:lol:

05-31-2003 10:42 AM

Thanks phred. Couldn't think of the name offa the top of my head.

Magpie0001 05-31-2003 10:57 AM

Bravo phredgreen, Masterfull retort, I tip my cap to thee.

greytone 05-31-2003 05:37 PM

Slightly off the subject, I had a friend who found out he was fired by listening to his answering machine the night he got back from his honeymoon. I thought that was low class, but this is amazing.

Frowning Budah 06-01-2003 08:38 AM

I don't think my employeer has anything I want. How sad.

sbscout 06-02-2003 05:05 AM

welcome to the new and exciting world of large corporations...

cogs are replaceable... and can become redundant

Daval 06-02-2003 05:17 AM

my brotherinlaw did that. he worked at an airline that went bankrupt. Walked out with about $5,000 worth of computer stuff. I totally lost respect for him that day.

Bill O'Rights 06-02-2003 05:40 AM

I don't know...it's not in my general make-up and character to do something lke this, but perhaps if mob mentality were to take over...who knows. I like to think not.

OTOH. In a broader picture, I think that this serves to illustrate that people are starting to demonstrate that they are sick and tired of being treated no better than used coffee filter in a coporation whos C.E.O. pulls down some obscene compensation.

Sun Tzu 06-02-2003 01:23 PM

I wonder what the department of trade and industry is like in terms of dealing with situations like this. If its rep is bad, and low with aiding in compensation; a person has to do what they have to do. I dont advocate stealing; but I've been f***ed like this a few times in my life, and the thought that karma would take care of evening the score never seemed to quiet my desire for justice effect a level of survival.


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