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Don't be dense. The use of euphemism is what the OP finds objectionable. Leaving implies a choice. These people are getting booted and the company is using weas
by blululu 4y ago
Don't be dense. The use of euphemism is what the OP finds objectionable. Leaving implies a choice. These people are getting booted and the company is using weasel words to gloss over the fact that this was a conscious decision that was made by people working for the company and it will cause harm to the people effected to the benefit of the company.
- drstewart 4y ago[flagged]
- ben0x539 4y agoIt's, like, using active voice. Like it's a thing the employees are actively, purposefully, doing or perpetrating. Of course it doesn't actually unambiguously say "and they've fully consciously decided they would like to no longer work to", but it's definitely language that's designed to, however ineffectively, not draw attention to the blatant fact that the company has chosen to fire people.
- lenkite 4y agoI guess when immigrants are given the boot on the backside by a nation state, they are also "leaving".
- nickpeterson 4y agoIf someone is carried out of a bar, would it be accurate to say they left the bar? Sure, but not of their own accord.
- usrusr 4y agoAnd yet it's an active verb, not a passive.
- meragrin_ 4y agoNo, the OP just latched on the bait the writer laid out there. The memo made it very clear in the lead up to that sentence that management was responsible. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/disney-ceo-bob-igers-layoff-183218754.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/disney-ceo-bob-igers-layoff-1...