The Singapore way! A fire alarm rang at 4 PM when almost all shift employees are in office (approx 5000).
As usual entire office was evacuated within 3 mins and every employee gathered outside
office. 10 mins passed.............5 more mins passed........5 more mins passed.
Then a security officer started an announcement: "Dear Employees - With melting heart I am making this announcement that for many of you it will a last evacuation drill. Due to the
recession we are laying off almost 50% of the employees. While moving in if your ID card does
not work, then you are among those laid off and all your belongings will be couriered to you
tomorrow. We have followed this approach as we didn't want to fill email box with layoff mails and good bye mails in thousand and also to avoid any fight inside office.
Hope you have a nice career ahead. Please move in and try your luck."
As usual entire office was evacuated within 3 mins and every employee gathered outside
office. 10 mins passed.............5 more mins passed........5 more mins passed.
Then a security officer started an announcement: "Dear Employees - With melting heart I am making this announcement that for many of you it will a last evacuation drill. Due to the
recession we are laying off almost 50% of the employees. While moving in if your ID card does
not work, then you are among those laid off and all your belongings will be couriered to you
tomorrow. We have followed this approach as we didn't want to fill email box with layoff mails and good bye mails in thousand and also to avoid any fight inside office.
Hope you have a nice career ahead. Please move in and try your luck."
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