Fearing social media backlash, companies are using all kinds of euphemisms to avoid being straightforward about layoffs — ‘right-sized’, ‘org changes’, ‘simplified operating model’::Managers are running out of ways to say you no longer have a job, but the way the bad news is delivered is more important than ever.
So employees are also not “quiet quiting” but “optimizing effort/reward strategies”.
Nobody is “working somewhere else” but just “geographically re-engaging opportunities”.
I had a (wonderful) colleague who would call a big fuck up an “opportunity for excellence”.
I’ve always heard that “they’re pursuing other opportunities.”
They’re actually violating laws. They want to layoff but that would involve giving severance and pay for unemployment benefits. They want to freeload off of tech worker productivity while not compensating fairly.
This is exactly it. Corporate weasels trying to weasel.
Not if they’re in the US. There are no state or federal laws mandating severance.
My favorite is “transformation”, like the company is a fucking caterpillar turning into a butterfly just by shedding more employees.
Bruh my company did this months before layoffs. They even sent out origami paper with instructions to make butterflies. What a crock of shit.
Yeah, I have experienced the magic of the “transformation”.
Imagine if companies quit with the bs fluff talk and just told it like is. I think it might be easier to take their shit if they just told you things straight up.
A recent example of this is the skiff email they sent out to everyone. Six paragraphs of time wasting fluff that the end user doesn’t give a damn about. They could have simply said something along the lines of “We have sold our company to notion and will be sunsetting our products in 6 months. This means you will need to find another email provider within that time.”.
