Worst Layoffs Ever? Employees Get The News Via Conference Call
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis is in a tetch of hot water after it laid off 1,700 US-based employees via conference call.
Huffington Post reporter Laura Bassett says that right after Thanksgiving, employees were e-mailed a phone number and a call-in time, with no other information. Turns out that the employees who called in at 8:00 a.m. were told that they were keeping their jobs, while the employees who called at 8:30 were given a speech saying that they were being canned and to stop working immediately.
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