File this tidbit of info in your 'weekly Friday layoffs' drawer...

[TeeYiYi]

A friend of mine just told me about a huge (well known) corporation that fired a slew of employees by phone today. Nice...

Here's the creepy part... Immediately following each employee purge, the phone belonging to the just fired employee went into self-destruct mode... literally wiping out every bit of information, contacts, images, etc. on the personal phone of the now freshly fucked employee.

Can you imagine? Gawd. Talk about adding insult to injury. Heinous. I've never heard of such a thing! (Except in the movies.) YIKES.

Advice--->> Back up your phone info to a thumb drive.

TYY :scared::argh:

[ddeclue]

1. I really don't believe that unless the phones belonged to the company

and the directory was controlled by the company.

There's no way to do it otherwise.

Firing by phone is pretty low though.

[aquart]

4. Of course, if it was a cell phone company...

All their employees use phones they are testing for the company carrying top secret company information.

[ddeclue]

5. in which case I WOULD believe it.

[TeeYiYi]

6. It wasn't a cell phone company.

I will tell you that they are international.

TYY

[Auggie]

2. Firing by phone... what cowards!

[TeeYiYi]

3. Yup. Conference calls...

... including HR and a couple of managers and/or supervisors.

As soon as HR hung up, the employee phone self-destructed. And no, the phones were not company owned. Possibly subsidized, but not owned. Ouch.

TYY

[whistler162]

7. Sorry something wrong with the story...

maybe your friend is having you on or you miss understood the friend.

[TeeYiYi]

8. Nope... I'm not being punk'd...

The internal memory of the phone was WIPED clean.

TYY

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

16. You can do this with Blackberry Enterprise Server

We nuke stolen phones regularly, the TSA can't keep their hands off them.

[TeeYiYi]

17. Just as I suspected. `;-)

Thank you for the confirmation.

TYY

[TeeYiYi]

9. Here's a clue...

... cell phone VPN.

Google it.

TYY

[Caretha]

10. Don't be so damn coy

who the hell cares, we are talking real people here. If you have information that could possibly help or warn others...you need to step up to the plate or quit playing games.

[TeeYiYi]

11. What the fuck do you think I just did?...

... I stepped up to the plate and told you what I know. Corporations are evil. What more do you want to know?

Seriously, Caretha, are you talking to me?...

TYY

[Caretha]

12. Yep I'm talking to you

Can you handle it? Name the company, name the town. As I said, step up to the plate, or go ahead and admit you don't play. :0

[TeeYiYi]

13. Can't name the company...

... I have no intention of putting my friend's job in jeopardy.

You have enough information to protect yourself. Otherwise, just ignore the OP.

TYY

[Caretha]

14. No

you didn't tell what you "know". You passed on an uninstantiated rumor...good for you and every other yellow bellied gossiper on your block.

[TeeYiYi]

15. "Yellow bellied gossiper"...? "uninstantiated"... ???...

Agent Mike... It's Friday night,...did you know your kids are playing on your computer?

TYY :hi: