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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Beta_Nerdy on 2024-11-15 11:04:39+00:00.

About a month ago a new COO was hired by our company and has been on a campaign to fire lots of people as quickly as possible. They are fired in a short meeting with the COO and the Human Resources Director. It is calling an employment termination for cause so by the rules of the employee handbook (Personnel Policy and Procedure Handbook) no severance or vacation payout is given. (Many of the fired managers had over 100 hours of vacation leave which is lost.) The terminated employees and managers were really just laid off because they did not do anything wrong but their employment termination is being called a firing for cause.

After the termination meeting, a security guard shows up and escorts them from the building. All computer access and their Company ID Card are deactivated.

The terminated employees and managers are furious and say they are going to sue but it is unlikely any of them actually will.

But one very angry terminated manager who was just a few years from being vested in his pension got even. He used his personal Gmail Account and a list of all company employees’ email addresses to send out a mass email to everyone. In his angry email, he talked about how harshly he was treated by the new COO and how hapless the HR Director was. And then went on to explain what happened during his employment termination. (No severance, vacation leave payment, security guard pushed him out of the building, etc.) And told everyone how the company was going to hell.

If you worked at my employer what you think of this angry ex-manager sending an email to the entire staff? Would you read the email with interest? Or would you just dismiss it out of hand?

What should the company leaders do about this email? Everyone is talking about it and is making senior management seem cruel and incompetent.