Employees And CEO Receive 'Termination Notice' After HR 'Accidentally' Fires Entire Staff | Viral Post

In a hilarious workplace mishap that’s now making waves online, an HR department unintentionally sparked chaos after emailing “termination” notices to the entire company — including top executives and even the CEO. The confusion unfolded after an employee shared the incident on Reddit, where it quickly went viral.The post, titled “HR accidentally sent everyone a ‘termination notice’ — including the CEO,” explained that the HR team was testing a new offboarding automation tool designed to send exit emails to departing employees.Unfortunately, someone forgot to switch the system from test mode to live mode. The mix-up resulted in 300 employees receiving an alarming email that opened with the line, “Your last working day is effective immediately.”“The

Slack went nuclear. One manager replied, ‘Should I start packing?,’” the Reddit user wrote, describing the panic that followed. Soon after, the IT department had to send an urgent clarification in all caps: “‘NO ONE IS FIRED. PLEASE DO NOT TURN IN YOUR BADGES,’” the post added.A screenshot shared by the Redditor also showed HR’s frantic follow-up message on Slack, which read: “Urgent - DO NOT PANIC. The automation tool just sent the test ‘termination’ email to everyone. You are NOT being fired. Please ignore the message.” The employee wrapped up the post with, “I don’t think anyone’s getting actual work done today.”

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Social media users had a field day with the incident. One joked, “If you live in a country with decent worker's rights, it can be a blessing. I wanted to quit my company and then right at the right time they let me know I was going to be made redundant, so I'd get 3 months of pay and could stop working straight away. It was great!”Another quipped, “Honestly, I've worked some jobs where my energy was like ‘If you're actually stupid enough to fire me, then I don't want to work for you anyway’. I've had some jobs where I would have just thumbs upped this message and then started packing my shit.”Not everyone saw the humor, though. “Extremely unprofessional reaction to the incident. I would absolutely be panicking because a real wave of layoffs is likely just around the corner,” one user wrote.