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Fired -> Let go -> Laid off -> Impacted I'll be curious to see what comes next.

by bink 4y ago

zen_1 4y ago
Selected for new and exciting opportunities!
nsenifty 4y ago
Completed? (like in Never let me go[0]) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(novel)
- morelisp 4y ago
  Carousel!
rvnx 4y ago
"Let go" is the worst, it implies "I let you go" -> "I allow you to leave" which is the ultimate humiliation when you are getting fired
- Arrath 4y ago
  I think of it more like the protagonist (or antagonist, one could argue) of a movie holding on to the hand of someone (employee) about to fall off of a cliff (the descent, ultimately, to poverty and homelessness) just to make the metaphor as vivid as possible.
Throw10987 4y ago
Role is "disestablished"
lotsofpulp 4y ago
Terminated is to the left of fired.
- bradleyjg 4y ago
  Playing around at the online etymology dictionary, it appears dismiss is the oldest—early 15th century. Sack and fire are from the 19th century, and laid off in this sense isn’t until the 1960s. Terminate, as in dismiss from a job, is first attested in 1973.
smallerfish 4y ago
Reassigned to an external role
ip26 4y ago
Fired still semi-exists. Let go seems to show up for insufficient performance, e.g. semi-amicable “it’s not working out”. Fired shows up when somebody really screwed up, e.g. laws were broken or products failed.
caseysoftware 4y ago
"Fixed the error"
nemo44x 4y ago
Can’t we all just agree on “shit canned”? “Today we are announcing that 10% of our company is being shit canned”.
yencabulator 4y ago
Hard to get more vague than impacted, that could mean anything. I was impacted by reading this bland PR release. Impacted still implies some causal connection, so the next level of doublespeak must avoid that, then. John was affine to the event.
DonHopkins 4y ago
For Sun Microsystems executives in the 90's, it was: "Promoted to Vice President of Looking for a New Job"
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weswilson 4y ago
One term I've heard from HR was "Released to the industry." I always wondered if that was focus grouped or something. It was definitely the running joke for a while.
- nullnix 4y ago
  Fifteen years ago I remember my last employer saying in a division meeting that they had "reallocated a number of roles to the mobility pool". A round of confused "what's that then" from more or less all present forced them to be less euphemistic.

Fired -> Let go -> Laid off -> Impacted I'll be curious to see what comes next.

by bink 4y ago

Fired -> Let go -> Laid off -> Impacted I'll be curious to see what comes next.

zen_1 4y ago

Selected for new and exciting opportunities!

nsenifty 4y ago

Completed? (like in Never let me go[0]) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(novel)

morelisp 4y ago
Carousel!

rvnx 4y ago

"Let go" is the worst, it implies "I let you go" -> "I allow you to leave" which is the ultimate humiliation when you are getting fired

Arrath 4y ago
I think of it more like the protagonist (or antagonist, one could argue) of a movie holding on to the hand of someone (employee) about to fall off of a cliff (the descent, ultimately, to poverty and homelessness) just to make the metaphor as vivid as possible.

Throw10987 4y ago

Role is "disestablished"

lotsofpulp 4y ago

Terminated is to the left of fired.

bradleyjg 4y ago
Playing around at the online etymology dictionary, it appears dismiss is the oldest—early 15th century. Sack and fire are from the 19th century, and laid off in this sense isn’t until the 1960s. Terminate, as in dismiss from a job, is first attested in 1973.

smallerfish 4y ago

Reassigned to an external role

ip26 4y ago

Fired still semi-exists. Let go seems to show up for insufficient performance, e.g. semi-amicable “it’s not working out”. Fired shows up when somebody really screwed up, e.g. laws were broken or products failed.

caseysoftware 4y ago

"Fixed the error"

nemo44x 4y ago

Can’t we all just agree on “shit canned”? “Today we are announcing that 10% of our company is being shit canned”.

yencabulator 4y ago

Hard to get more vague than impacted, that could mean anything. I was impacted by reading this bland PR release. Impacted still implies some causal connection, so the next level of doublespeak must avoid that, then. John was affine to the event.

DonHopkins 4y ago

For Sun Microsystems executives in the 90's, it was: "Promoted to Vice President of Looking for a New Job"

deleted 4y ago

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weswilson 4y ago

One term I've heard from HR was "Released to the industry." I always wondered if that was focus grouped or something. It was definitely the running joke for a while.

nullnix 4y ago
Fifteen years ago I remember my last employer saying in a division meeting that they had "reallocated a number of roles to the mobility pool". A round of confused "what's that then" from more or less all present forced them to be less euphemistic.