Baldwin Oddson, CEO of Musicians Club, a Wyoming-based online musical instrument store, fired 90% of his staff — 99 of 110 employees and freelancers — via a Slack message for missing just one morning meeting at 8:30 a.m. on the 15 November
One of the former employees described the shocking event in detail in a now-deleted post on the Reddit forum. «I joined an internship and an hour later the entire team was fired,» wrote a user quoted by aol.com.
«For those of you who didn’t show up for this morning’s meeting, consider it official: you’re all fired,» Oddson wrote in Slack. «You failed to do what you agreed to, failed to fulfill your part of the contract and failed to show up for meetings you were supposed to attend and work.»
Oddson then ordered the remote group to log out of all accounts, return any company property and consider all contracts terminated.
«I gave you the opportunity to make your life better, work hard and develop. But you have shown me that you are not taking it seriously,» he continued. — Out of 110 people, only 11 were present this morning. These 11 remain. I release the rest. Get the hell out of my business right now.»
Many of the workers were part-time remote interns. 51 applicants responded to the company’s unpaid operations manager vacancy announcement, published earlier this year.
The job announcement said the job would provide «a deep understanding of e-commerce operations in a competitive market,» «hands-on experience in managing and optimizing online sales platforms» and «high potential to transition full-time in 2025.»
