I found this article on CNN. It is funny and sad at the same time.
here is the link
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/...x.html?cnn=yes
The one that stuck out for me
Bank of America
In related news, the Department of Corrections has announced that death-row inmates will now be required to pedal stationary bikes to power Old Sparky...
After Bank of America announces plans to outsource 100 tech support jobs from the San Francisco Bay Area to India, the American workers are told that they must train their own replacements in order to receive their severance payments.
Belive it or not Rayovac made us do this!!!!!!!!!
Radio Shack
In August, RadioShack fires 400 staffers via e-mail. Affected employees receive a message that reads, "The work force reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated."
B2/Raytheon CEO
Still, copying does have its drawbacks...
In April, just nine months after a Business 2.0 cover story trumpets the wisdom of Raytheon CEO William Swanson and his folksy hit book, Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management, a San Diego engineer makes a shocking discovery: 17 of Swanson's 33 rules are similar - and in some cases identical - to those in The Unwritten Rules of Engineering, a 1944 text by UCLA professor W.J. King.
While conceding that he failed to give proper credit, Swanson insists he didn't intend to plagiarize, suggesting that old photocopied material may have wound up in his "scraps."
By way of punishment, Raytheon's board freezes Swanson's salary at its 2005 level of $1.1 million and cuts his restricted stock grant by 20 percent.
Alarm One
Jeez, what a crybaby...
A jury in Fresno, Calif., awards $1.7 million in damages to Janet Orlando, who quit her job with home security company Alarm One after team-building exercises during which she and her colleagues were forced to eat baby food, wear diapers, or submit to being spanked on the butt with a rival company's yard signs
National Semiconductor
At least they were classy enough to do it face-to-face...
In June, National Semiconductor boosts morale by handing every employee a 30-gigabyte iPod, for which it makes computer chips.
In July, National lays off 35 employees - and demands their iPods back, claiming that the portable music players are company "equipment."
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