Saturday, April 21, 2012

Blooper of the Week: Firm's 1,300 staff given marching orders – accidentally!




Another great leap forward in employee motivation!  Reuters reports that workers at investment firm Aviva Investors got a shock on Friday when the company accidentally sent an email with leaving instructions intended for one departing employee to the entire worldwide staff of 1,300 people.

The firm's human resources department realised its mistake and recalled the offending message 25 minutes later and soon afterwards sent out another email apologising to staff for the error, company spokesman Paul Lockstone said.

"An email which was intended for a member of staff who was leaving today was accidentally sent to all Aviva Investors staff worldwide," Lockstone said.

Read more at http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/20/uk-britain-aviva-email-idUKBRE83J1KA20120420

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