Lay offs are not a new concept, and unfortunately, many people have had the opportunity to get familiar with the idea during this recession year.
More often than not, companies will let these people go with a certain amount of regret. They will break the news to an employee as tactfully as possible, often providing generous recommendation letters. Buy out options were a relatively win-win situation that worked well for many companies in need of lightening their employment load.
However, Arrow Trucking decided not to go with any of these preferable ideas. Instead they took the classy way out.
By stranding their drivers.
That’s right. They stopped payment on all of the truck drivers gas cards, effectively stranding them where ever they happened to be on their routes. This was done with zero contact – no phone calls, no info on the company website, and none on the company phone lines. The best the drivers had was a short recorded message on the main company line telling them to call a hotline for bus passes home.
The short notice didn’t end with the drivers out in the field. Over 200 employees at Arrow headquarters were abruptly told to pack up their belongings and go home Tuesday morning.
Talk about not pulling any punches.