A fire alarm rang at 4 PM at our office when almost all the employees are in (approx 2,000).
As usual, the entire office was evacuated within 5 minutes and every employee gathered outside at the designated location(s).
10 minutes passed... then 5 more minutes passed, but no information or update. After more than 15 minutes of standing outside the office, the following announcement was heard over the PA system:
Dear Employees, with a heavy heart I am making this announcement that for any of you it will be the last evacuation drill...
Due to recessionary pressures, the company is laying off almost 50% of the employees. While moving back into the office, if your Access Card does not work, you are amongst those laid off. All your belongings will be couriered to your residential addresses tomorrow.
We have followed this approach as we did not want to fill email boxes
with layoff instructions and consequent good-bye emails in thousands. We also wanted to avoid any fist-fights inside the office premises.
Hope you have nice career ahead. Please move in NOW and try your luck.
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