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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1940407.html
A shop assistant was sacked by text - because her boss said it was part of youth culture.
Katy Tanner, 21, had worked at Blue Banana clothes and body-piercing store in Cardiff for just eight weeks.
She was off sick with a migraine when manager, Alex Bartlett, texted her, saying her sales figures were too low.
He added: We will not require your services any more. Thank you.
According to The Sun Katy said: It's not right to just text someone. They should've talked to me face-to-face.
It's not professional. You're not allowed to text in sick - you have to phone. It's a double standard.
But Blue Banana director Ian Besbie said: Our staff are part of the youth culture that uses texts as a major means of communication. We'd rather have spoken in person but her phone was off.
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you call that youth culture? try:
lol hi ur sales #s arnt tht good n ur not makin me tat much $$$. ur fir3d LOL! g2g bye =D
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what an ass of a manager.
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lol hi ur sales #s arnt tht good n ur not makin me tat much $$$. ur fir3d LOL! g2g bye =D
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) That was hilarious.
The manager and the employee are both right in that the manager shouldn't have used text to fire her and employees shouldn't be texting to call in sick.
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Youth Culture?!?! Thats so dumb. Professionalism is more important. I mean she's not like OMG this is so cool I got fired by text. Maybe he needs to be fired. His people skills suck.
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What the heck is youth culture...? That was very unprofessional and stupid. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)
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youth culture????!!!!??? wth.....thats so stupid..
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Ingenious! Now I know how to fire someone the quick and painless way (for me at least (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) ).
I'm gona say. U r teh fir3d N00b! PwnEd!!!!
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HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.
That's hilariously retarted.
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Hey, if ppl can break up using txt, why stop there.
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I always thought you had to speak to the person face-to-face =/
Guess that's for OLD people (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)
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what happened to professionalism? youth culture? yea right.
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so basically he assumed she was young so she didn't get the same treatment as a staff member who was or 30-40...please..stupid manager.
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lol hi ur sales #s arnt tht good n ur not makin me tat much $$$. ur fir3d LOL! g2g bye =D
Lmao. The manager is an idiot. He sounds like the Abercrombie president. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)
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Lol, that's hella dumb. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)
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That's too hilarious.
txt: Yea...um....I'm going to have to let you go...yeah...So if you would be so kindly as to just pack on up your stuff and go, that'd be great...ok?
(You won't get that if you've never seen Office Space)
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Thats a stupid way to fire someone. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
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that's really sad. it's bad enough getting fired but by a text message? youth culture my butt.
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Now that's stupid, what an idiot. He's just lazy =0=;
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lol he thinks its youth culture to fire ppl with test msgs
ppl no not to work for him anymore
wat a dumb manager =_=
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lol hi ur sales #s arnt tht good n ur not makin me tat much $$$. ur fir3d LOL! g2g bye =D
lmfao (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
just like my boss to my coworker
on the answering machine
hi..don't come into tmr, you're fired
have a nice day
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firing poeple by text. that guy must be a loser & not want to be yelled at.
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