A bus company boss fired his entire workforce with a blunt note telling them: "F**k it... I cannot work with you a moment longer."
Managing director Sydney Hardy shut down
Somerset firm Nippy Bus with immediate effect and told staff, thought to include his own daughter, he wanted to "pursue my dream of not having to work here".
The sudden closure left 27 drivers out of work and affected 300 children whose school bus service was cancelled with no notice.
find replacement operators at the last minute to get the pupils to and from lessons.
Mr Hardy, 57, had run Nippy Bus for 13 years from the company's headquarters in Martock, a village near Yeovil.
In a message to staff through the company's internal memo system, he wrote: "There is a difference between giving up and knowing when you have had enough. I have had enough and realise I cannot work with you, the people I employ, a moment longer.
"There comes a time in any relationship when you just have to say 'F*** it', say goodbye and move on. This is my time! I am quitting to pursue my dream of not having to work here."
A bus company boss fired his entire workforce with a blunt note telling them: "F**k it... I cannot work with you a moment longer."
Managing director Sydney Hardy shut down
Somerset firm Nippy Bus with immediate effect and told staff, thought to include his own daughter, he wanted to "pursue my dream of not having to work here".
The sudden closure left 27 drivers out of work and affected 300 children whose school bus service was cancelled with no notice.
Local schools and colleges were left rushing to find replacement operators at the last minute to get the pupils to and from lessons.
Mr Hardy, 57, had run Nippy Bus for 13 years from the company's headquarters in Martock, a village near Yeovil.
In a message to staff through the company's internal memo system, he wrote: "There is a difference between giving up and knowing when you have had enough. I have had enough and realise I cannot work with you, the people I employ, a moment longer.
"There comes a time in any relationship when you just have to say 'F*** it', say goodbye and move on. This is my time! I am quitting to pursue my dream of not having to work here."
He said "all staff should consider themselves dismissed/redundant", adding: "The gates are now closed and will not open so you can can stay in your scratchers Monday and have a lie in."
A brief note on the firm's website said it had ceased operating with immediate effect. It added: "The company has appointed agents who will now work to release the company's assets and discharge its liabilities."