Where did you get your MBA?

If there was a Genghis Khan School of Business, they probably taught a variation on this method of instituting a mass layoff.

Shop staff filed outside when the fire alarm sounded at a department store - only to be greeted by managers and told "you're sacked."

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Workers gathered outside after the alarm was deliberately set off to clear the store of customers on Wednesday morning.

In the car park they were made aware that there was "bad news."

This would be amusing if it wasn't so awful.