Faced with jobs that needed to be cut and insufficient volunteers, Aer Lingus apparently had a brainstorming session and put together a memo full of ideas on how to encourage employees to resign. Ideas included:

• Make employees wear nasty uniforms of jump suits and T-shirts.
• Send staff on long, tedious training courses.
• Tap people on the shoulder and casually suggest to them that they don’t really have a future with the company.
• Assign people to work awkward shifts.
• Put emphasis on attendance and clock-punching.
• Relocate everyone at head office to a different location.