Store bosses set off fire alarm then sack staff in car park
‘It is rarely a pleasant task and one that demands a caring and tactful approach.
So when bosses at a struggling department store were faced with the prospect of letting 140 staff go, it was a particularly heavy responsibility.
But rather than call each employee in one by one or sending an apologetic letter to each, they chose a different approach.
They set off the fire alarm, assembled the workforce in the car park and then read out a short statement informing them they no longer had a job to go to.’
