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As an aside, Let go is such an interesting term. It's such a well accepted piece of corporate doublespeak. It's like they want to go, and their employer is let
by bopbop 8y ago
As an aside, Let go is such an interesting term. It's such a well accepted piece of corporate doublespeak.
It's like they want to go, and their employer is letting them. They're straining at the leash to be unemployed, and the employer graciously releases them from the burden of their contract.
They're being fired.
- gdfasfklshg4 8y agoFired implies that the employee did something wrong. Let go is a euphemism for made redundant/laid off. I do agree that it is a euphemism.
- michaelt 8y agoIn my experience, let go is a euphemism used to avoid saying if they were fired or made redundant.
- gaius 8y agoIt’s more like they are dangling over an abyss and the person holding them up lets go.
- rdtsc 8y agoI get an uneasy feeling every time I hear it. It twists the situation around, like you said, to make it seem like they are doing a great benefit to the employee. My all time favorite ridiculous doublespeak is "we reached out to the employee and let them go". I heard that once from a company's pr dept. after firing a worker due to some public scandal.
- lordlimecat 8y agoIt honestly reminds me of The Giver. They're being released.