Retrenchment is not just being fired, it’s a bit more like redundancy. As **Giles **noted, it may provide more benefits.
There was a high profile legal battle a few years back here concerning the firing of a TV news presenter. Famously, there was an email or similar which referred to her being “rissoled”.
I had never heard the expression before, but the term is now commonplace. I assume because of this particular legal battle.
In the Army if you don’t get promoted fast enough you reach your Retention Control Point and are rcped
Wasn’t it “boned”?
Hadn’t heard that one, but there was the Eddie McGuire incident when he said he wanted to “bone” a TV presenter. Given that the presenter in quesstion was Jessica Rowe, some doubted that Eddie meant “fired” in that case. The 12th Man did a CD called “Boned” where the entire cricket commentary team was sacked.
Doh! :smack: I’ve totally confused myself. “Boned” it is.
Of course, “rissoled” is a good word too.
Yeah, people are used “fired” (which generally means terminated with cause) and “laid off” (made redundant, let go as part of a reduction in force) as synonyms themselves - which they aren’t. If I were “laid off” I wouldn’t refer to myself as “fired.”
“fixed the glitch” from Office Space
You’ll probably never hear of it in an official firing, but that’s how a lot of us refer to it, especially if the person fired was particularly incompetent.
Being “sent to the cheese line” was a popular one in the late 90s.
I’ve been issued my walking papers.
“De-selected”. Actual term used at an ex-employer. As in “we selected you 10 years ago; now we are de-selecting you.”
“Surplused”
And if a company is looking to downsize, they sometimes offer “voluntary redundancy”, i.e. employees can choose to leave so that they have to fire fewer (or no) staff who don’t want to go. To make this option attractive they usually offer a decent payoff.
Right-sized is a particularly annoying one. Not so right for the person getting shit-canned.
You got that right! Sort of sticking it in and breaking it off, ain’t it?
“Involuntary Separation” seems to have replaced “Termination” around here.
When I worked in the ‘oil patch’ years ago it was “run off”. As in “Hey Billy Bob, what happened to Leroy?” “Ah had to run off that damn Coonass an’ he’s gone to the house”. My apologies to anyone living south of Golden Meadows.
“Blow off.”
You will be de-assimulated, resistance is irrelevent.
One time I was actually told I could have the rest of the year off.
Have a nice day!
This helps me remember how I was released from employment back in the 60’s. My boss had gotten tired of me and it was no real surprise, but he eased me into my departure by saying, “You’ve got two weeks vacation coming, go ahead and take it. And don’t come back.”