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LONDON -- Katy Tanner's cellphone beeped with a startling message: ``you're fired.''
The 21-year-old Tanner had a migraine headache and took a sick day last week from her job at Blue Banana, a chain body-piercing studio in Cardiff, Wales.
She turned on her cellphone the next day to discover she'd been terminated from her sales position.
The message said her sales figures were not good enough.
Ian Bisbie, a Blue Banana director, said the company does not usually fire employees by text message.
But he says they had no alternative after phoning Tanner five or six times and calling her boyfriend.
The company also defended the sacking-by-text message as a way to keep modern.
Bisbie says it spared Tanner ``the embarrassment and expense of coming into the store only to be sent straight home again.''
Tanner says the text firing was unfair and it should have been done face to face.
(AP)
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The 21-year-old Tanner had a migraine headache and took a sick day last week from her job at Blue Banana, a chain body-piercing studio in Cardiff, Wales.
She turned on her cellphone the next day to discover she'd been terminated from her sales position.
The message said her sales figures were not good enough.
Ian Bisbie, a Blue Banana director, said the company does not usually fire employees by text message.
But he says they had no alternative after phoning Tanner five or six times and calling her boyfriend.
The company also defended the sacking-by-text message as a way to keep modern.
Bisbie says it spared Tanner ``the embarrassment and expense of coming into the store only to be sent straight home again.''
Tanner says the text firing was unfair and it should have been done face to face.
(AP)
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