28Nov/080
MFI and Woolworths – websites on the brink
On the day after the two emblematic retail groups Woolworths and MFI had gone under in the UK, their websites showed the signs of disaffected (and potentially jobless) web staff - and who can blame them.
At Woolies they couldn't be asked, so the website simply reported that the site was "undergoing essential maintenance", which is a euphemism for "we took the servers down for now, buy us out, let us keep our jobs and we might be back.".
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At MFI, there was a nice letter from the administrators telling customers what to do. A lonely "<div>" tag at the very bottom was the only sign of employee apathy:
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