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The one thing this is missing is referring to employees with a cutesy company nickname while laying them off. "We'll be parting ways with some talented Floofmat
by sequoia 4y ago
The one thing this is missing is referring to employees with a cutesy company nickname while laying them off. "We'll be parting ways with some talented Floofmates* which is very difficult." It always strikes me that a layoff email is not the right time/place to lean on cutesy "we're a family here! We have fun" company culture schtick.
*or googleers, metamates, plaids, whatever
Incidentally is there a name for these company-nickname-for-employees words?
- jetrink 4y agoHere's a fun list of these from Mike Pope from 2012: https://mikepope.com/blog/AddComment.aspx?blogid=2354 https://mikepope.com/blog/AddComment.aspx?blogid=2354 He adds, > Then there is the question of what we might call a nickname like this. A name based on a place is a toponym. A name for people from a city or region is a demonym. I solicited some ideas for this, too. We threw around corporanym and employeeonym. Someone suggested "idionym, which should mean roughly 'your own name'." > The most interesting suggestion was from Colleague Clay, who knows his way around a number of languages. He suggested ergazomenonym ("from modern Greek εργαζόμενου= employee"). I like it tons, although I'd need some coaching, perhaps, in how to pronounce it properly.