When email goes wrong: UK company mistakenly dismisses entire workforce in memo mix-up

[Knight Rider]

https://www.digitaltrends.com/inter...ly-dismisses-entire-workforce-in-memo-mix-up/

So the last thing you want to see in your work inbox is an email giving you your marching orders — especially if the email has been sent in error. But that’s exactly what happened to workers at UK-based insurance company Aviva Investors on Friday.

An email with leaving instructions meant for one employee was accidentally sent to the company’s entire global workforce of 1300 people. It told staff to hand over all property belonging to the company, together with security passes, as they left the building.

It was almost half an hour before the human resources department realized its mistake, though presumably by that time employees were already halfway through clearing their desks.

Company spokesperson Paul Lockstone confirmed the distressing mix-up, saying, “It was intended that this email should have gone to one single person,” Lockstone told Bloomberg. “Unfortunately, as a result of a clerical error, it was sent to all of the Investors staff worldwide.”

 

[a 1 player]

Firing someone by email, that is the lowest of the low. It serves them right.

 

[Macho Man]

Firing someone by email, that is the lowest of the low. It serves them right.

+ 1

 

[Brick]

Firing someone by email, that is the lowest of the low. It serves them right.

It's a cruel world out there.

 

[HOF]

LAWSUIT


1299 WRONG DISMISSALS

1 BREACH OF CONFIDENTALITY BY SENDING THE DISMISSAL FOR ALL TO SEE.​

 

[Da Kid]

Called bad management, just how RIM got screwed.

 

[Anto]

Shoot the president.

 

[God]

Didn't anyone found this hilarious Funky & Music

 

[Smooth]

The person who sent the email should be fired at once via email of course!

 

[Oilcan]

Didn't anyone found this hilarious Funky & Music