Late last year, a man opened fire in a Connecticut beer distributor, killing at least nine people, including himself. Omar Thornton, 34, was an employee who had been asked to resign because he was a “disciplinary problem”.

In April, a man fired from his job at a Texas car dealership got back at his former employer by hassling its customer base. Omar Ramos-Lopez, 20, allegedly used a former co-worker’s password to deactivate car ignitions for more than 100 customers.
In 2008 when Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job — and with her boss’s phone number listed — she assumed she was about to be fired. So she went to the architectural office where she works late Sunday night and erased 7 years’ worth of drawings and blueprints, estimated to be worth $2.5 million.
Earlier this year, a disgruntled employee who worked for the Whole Foods Market in Toronto resigned and sent a damning resignation letter to the entire company. The letter begins with a point-by-point evisceration of the grocery chain’s carefully calibrated image as an earth-and-body-friendly, organic foods paradise.
TheFreshDiet.com is in the process of trying to retrieve nearly six months worth of work because it decided to let one of its culinary workers go. Shortly after she was told over the phone that she was being fired, she dropped by one of the kitchen locations, took a box of soap, and poured it all over her computer. Luckily, it was all caught on camera.
When RLM PR fired an account executive for not performing, she first sat on the floor and began to weep and when the company refused to reconsider, she began to throw things and screaming at the top of her lungs that the company was running a “hostile work environment.”

75% of the general population experiences at least “some stress” every two weeks (National Health Interview Survey).

Stress alters the neurochemical makeup of the body, which can affect the maturation and release of the human egg. Hence more and more couples have to turn to fertility treatments to help them conceive.
Research has shown that dark chocolate reduces stress hormones such as cortisol and other fight-flight hormones. Additionally, cocoa is rich in antioxidants called flavonoids.
An early record of post-traumatic stress syndrome dates from the eighth century B.C. in Homer’s Iliad when Achilles suffers severe battle stress in the Trojan War. Achilles complains of feeling emotionally “numb” or “dead” and expresses suicidal thoughts and rage.
The term ‘Going postal’ refers to when someone becomes uncontrollably angry, often to the point of shooting people dead, usually in a workplace environment. The expression derives from a series of incidents from 1983 onward in which United States Postal Service (USPS) workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public in acts of mass murder.
Stress has been called “the silent killer” and can lead to heart disease, high blood pressure, chest pain, and an irregular heartbeat.

In 1953, Del Monte ketchup bottles got new lids. The ad was a picture of a woman opening the bottle and it read “You mean a woman can open it?”.

Kenwood ran an ad for its Chef food processor, launched in 1950, which read, “The Chef does everything but cook – that’s what wives are for!”
Drummond Sweaters came out with a sexist ad that showed two men standing on top of a cliff, talking, while a woman dangled from a rope beneath them. The poster began by saying “Men are better than women…”.
A Dacron ad showed a picture of a lady on the floor with a rug for a body with a man standing on her head saying, “It’s nice to have a girl around the house.”.
A recent advertisement for AudioOne, a device that allows you to turn on lots of appliances with the click of a button, reads “So simple even your wife can turn on the DVD.” This appeared in the April edition of this year’s Life Magazine.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? Stephen Wright, US humorist
Barbie is marketed in 140 countries worldwide. Two Barbies are sold every second. If all Barbies produced were placed head to toe, they would circle our planet seven times.

Microsoft founder head Bill Gates has banned the use of products made by arch-rival Apple from his house, his wife, Melinda has revealed. ‘There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household,’ she said. ‘But iPods and iPhones are two things we don’t get for our kids.’ ‘Every now and then I look at my friends and say ‘Ooh, I wouldn’t mind having that iPhone,’ she admitted.
According to The Sourcebook for Teaching Science, the average child views 1500 hours of television per year compared to spending only 900 hours per year in school. By the time they graduate high school, children will have spent more time watching TV than in the classroom or talking with their parents.
Toyota figured that children can even influence something as ‘adult’ as the purchase of a car. They ran a series of ads in Australia with cuddly cute animals in the lead. These outperformed other car ads at the time.
In Britain, attempts to ban junk-food advertising on commercial channels before 9 pm failed. The regulator decided the loss of revenue involved ($441 million annually) meant broadcasters would have struggled.
Facebook is not working on opening up the world’s biggest social network to children under the age of 13 in the short term, founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said recently, contradicting some media reports. A father is suing Facebook for not getting permission from parents or guardians before letting members of the online social network know when children “Like” brands.
Babies often form mental images of logos. A US study found three-year-old toddlers capable of recognizing an average of a hundred brand logos. Children pay more attention to ads on TV even if they are not aimed at them. With equal exposure they are three times more likely to remember a brand advertised on TV than adults and twice as likely to enjoy the ads.