{"id":16245,"date":"2012-04-24T09:09:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T07:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16245"},"modified":"2012-04-24T09:09:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T07:09:58","slug":"dear-al-you-are-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/24\/dear-al-you-are-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Al, you are fired!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Being fired is usually not much fun. \u00a0But as far as firings go, this one is pretty funny – as reported on Slashdot<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On Friday, more than 1,300 employees of London-based Aviva Investors walked into their offices, strolled over to their desks, booted up their computers and checked their emails, only to learn the shocking news:\u00a0They would be leaving the company. The email ordered them to hand over company property and security passes before leaving the building, and left the staff with one final line: ‘I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and wish you all the best for the future. ‘This email was sent to Aviva’s worldwide staff of 1,300 people, with bases in the U.S., UK, France, Spain, Sweden, Canada, Italy, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Finland and the Netherlands. And it was all one giant mistake: The email was intended for only one individual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously, in the corporate address book, “All Stuff” and “Al Not-the-Pacino” were right next to each other…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Being fired is usually not much fun. \u00a0But as far as firings go, this one is pretty funny – as reported on Slashdot: On Friday, more than 1,300 employees of London-based Aviva Investors walked into their offices, strolled over to their desks, booted up their computers and checked their emails, only to learn the shocking … Continue reading Dear Al, you are fired!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1675,1793,2418],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-corporate-slavery","tag-human-resource","tag-humor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15221,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/25\/unstable-company-of-skype\/","url_meta":{"origin":16245,"position":0},"title":"Unstable company of Skype","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"While reading this article at GigaOm about the latest adventures of Skype, I came across this quote by Yee Lee, a former employee of Skype: You can agree or disagree with the practice of re-organization, but I personally had never been part of a restructuring that ran so deep in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15087,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/10\/world-largest-statue-planned-for-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":16245,"position":1},"title":"World largest statue planned for Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Cyprus Mail reports: WHAT MIGHT be the world\u2019s tallest statue is being planned at a Russian backed development off the coast of Limassol.The 135 metre statue of an angel named The Kind Angel of the World is being planned at Monagrouli, about 20km from Limassol.The development is being planned by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/jesus.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9070,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/12\/in-good-company\/","url_meta":{"origin":16245,"position":2},"title":"In Good Company","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 12, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Living through my hangover day, I wanted to watch something simple and low profile. 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