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Agreed, this title makes it sound like the CEO flipped out.

Sometimes CEOs ( or Managing Directors ) do 'sack' customers. The MD of my ISP did so, a few years back:

http://revk.www.me.uk/2009/11/being-rude-to-customer.html

Quote: "so I've decided to give her 30 days notice, as we can"

I've been sacked from a small telco too. They told me I was no longer profitable for them. It was worded in such a way that it went to my junk email folder and I lost that phone number completely (too late to port it to a new carrier)

However, it did get us all to click it thinking "OMG, no wai! Grrr, corporate douchebags! Grab your pitchforks, netizens!"

Then we saw what it really was.

So, well done, clickbait. =)

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