What event or incident happened at your job that caused a mass firing or a mass quitting?

All the engineers at one job I was in had their contracts changed so that they had to buy their

own tools. Due to the specialist nature of our jobs, we were all looking at over £4,000 per

engineer. Ten walked and the rest threatened to strike. The boss had to give in and buy the tools himself.

They had their contracts changed. I'm not an expert, but isn't that illegal? Probably yes,

but the boss was such a butt. He felt he could do as he pleased with his servants. Many times

he would just have the engineers working on Christmas Day. If you complained about it, he would

just tell you

to stop whining or get another job. One poor sod was made to work the day his wife went into

labour, and he missed the birth of his child. He wasn't even allowed to phone the hospital.

In the early 90s, I worked for a large construction company in Florida. I was on the road crew.

One of the machines we used was called a mixer.

The objective of this machine was to mix up the subgrade of a road. It had giant teeth that spin

insanely fast. Well, my crew had laid down the dirt, limerock and clay, and now had to run the mixer

over it. While someone set the blades too low and ripped an international fiber optic cable out of the ground.

A clean cut would have been bad, but this cable was shredded beyond belief.

It cost $100,000 per hour that this cable was down.

Luckily, I wasn't at work that day.

When I came in the next day, anyone who was even near the incident got fired.

My whole crew was extinct. To put it

into perspective, the cable was fatter than your upper leg and composed of thousands of glass strands.

Every strand had to be fused back together. It cost the company millions. Total about 40 people

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