From icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk:
Fire chiefs have launched an investigation after department store bosses used a fire alarm to get rid of customers and assemble staff so they could be informed they were being made redundant.
Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service have confirmed they are investigating the circumstances of the incident, at department store Robbs, in Hexham, Northumberland, on Wednesday.
According to the administrator, the fire alarm was set off "to clear the store of members of the public" and that, once in the car park, staff were summoned to the food hall where there was a closed meeting for employees at which a formal announcement was made that the store would close in two weeks.
The redundancies were announced after efforts failed to find a buyer for the store, which has been a part of Hexham life since 1818.
3 comments:
Hopefully the fireman were not diverted from a real fire for this. Unbelievable, no wonder the place is going out of business with idiots like this running it. Pull the fire alarm to clear out customers, pathetic, even more pathetic the managers could not think of a better way.
It's just gutless IMHO. A friend of mine emailed this story this morning...
Well, what do you expect from the Brits. They've lost their edge ever since they got Blair, the U.S.'s best PM.
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