Fire Drill

Heard so many retrenchment stories…

I like this one. Innovative

Fire Drill

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 many 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.

Next time there is a fire drill at your office…… be cautious !

Which ever approach is taken, either way also die.

Nice one