Fired by Text Message

This is just another reason why it kinda sucks to be young in today’s high tech world. You have to work at a place called the “Blue Bannana” sticking sharp things in peoples’ belly buttons. And if you get sick and need to stay home, you get canned by SMS message on your cell phone.

From the AFP here:

U r sckd: worker fired by text message

LONDON (AFP) – A company has defended its decision to sack one of its staff by text message, claiming it was keeping in touch with youth culture.

Katy Tanner, a 21-year-old sales assistant, received the message while she was off work with a migraine, the South Wales Echo newspaper said Friday.

The text message said: “We will not require your services anymore…Thank you for your time with us.”

“I don’t think it’s right to just text someone. At least they should have talked to me face to face,” Tanner said.

“You’re not allowed to text in sick, you have to phone. The fact that they texted me is a bit of double standards.”

Several senior staff members at Blue Banana, a body-piercing and jewellery shop based in Cardiff, defended the decision.

The retailer claims it tried to reach Tanner directly “five or six times” and passed on a message through her boyfriend before the text was sent.

Blue Banana’s Website is here. In defense of the company, the type of people that work in these types of places are usually on the UK’s equivalent of welfare. In the UK, these people are called “Chavs” which translates to Jerry Springer white trash over here in the US. They dress in track suits with burberry striped hats, listen to hip hop, and rarely work, but receive hundreds of pounds per month for having children out of wedlock. I would love to fire them by text message too.

BTW, here is a dirty trick or just a way to have fun. You can go to Ipippi.com and text message your friends or enemies. Tell them that they are fired and watch the hilarity ensue.