COLD TURKEY: Company fires thousands by text days before Thanksgiving
laid off nearly its entire workforce before Thanksgiving.
The company, which had become one of the largest furniture businesses in the country, sent a memo via email and text message to workers late Monday night and instructed them not to report to work the next morning. Many of those who were fired were asleep when the emails were sent and some never even saw them before heading to their shifts on Tuesday.
A cardboard box containing a sofa made in China is seen at a store in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 15, 2019.However, any other details were vague and FOX Business' requests for comment were not immediately returned.Layoffs took place at United's North Carolina and California locations as well.
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