Wow thats some BS
United Furniture fires thousands by text days before Thanksgiving
Around 2,700 workers lost their jobs on Monday.
The company, which had become one of the largest furniture businesses in the country, sent a memo via email and text message to workers late Monday night and instructed them not to report to work the next morning.
layoff is "expected to be permanent and all benefits will be terminated immediately without provision of COBRA.
Many of those who were fired were asleep when the emails were sent and some never even saw them before heading to their shifts on Tuesday.
Around 2,700 workers lost their jobs on Monday.
The company, which had become one of the largest furniture businesses in the country, sent a memo via email and text message to workers late Monday night and instructed them not to report to work the next morning.
layoff is "expected to be permanent and all benefits will be terminated immediately without provision of COBRA.
Many of those who were fired were asleep when the emails were sent and some never even saw them before heading to their shifts on Tuesday.
