A Mississippi-based furniture company on Tuesday fired all of its 2,700 employees while they were sleeping, telling them in texts and emails not to come to work the next day, said reports. The mass firing by United Furniture Industries left thousands of employees unemployed just two days before Thanksgiving. It's not clear why the two-decade-old company dissolved its operations suddenly.
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27 Nov