There are So Many Ways to Say, ‘You’re Fired!’
Nobody gets fired anymore. Nowadays, when people lose their jobs, they are “reclassified,” “rightsized,” “deselected,” “outplaced,” “nonpositively terminated” or any other of dozens of euphemistic verbs that really mean axed, canned, sacked or given the heave-ho. In the continuing search for newer, softer and more ambiguous verbs with which to administer the final blow […]