BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!

Subject: BS: new oxymorons for the new decade!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 01:51 PM

Don't give up your day job! --- an oxymoron for the new era because, now, more and more every day, it is a moot point.

Control, itself, is a one-word oxymoron

And to bring back a semantic observation that I've noted before (as is my wont):

If, after being laid off, you are reinstalled, it would be <"day-job-vu all over again!"

Love,

Art

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 02:05 PM

Those of us who have a day job are clinging to it for all we're worth.
The times they are a changing.
Can you say "Depression"?

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: gnu
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 02:09 PM

Yup.

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 02:18 PM

When layoffs were rife in the 1980s, many euphemisms were coined to soften the blow. My favorite of these was "decruited," and that was the therm I used when I became superfluous to my own employer back then. This did, though, make me wonder: When I am "recruited," does that mean I've been there before?

Here are some other terms, cribbed from a New York Times poll found here:

Instead of "fired":

- bumped
- decruited
- de-hired
- deselected
- destaffed
- discontinued
- disemployed
- dislocated
- displaced
- downsized
- excessed
- involuntarily separated
- nonretained
- nonrenewed
- severed
- surplussed
- transitioned
- vocationally relocated

Instead of "layoffs":   

- degrowing
- executive culling
- job separation
- payroll adjustment
- personnel surplus reduction
- reduction in force or "rif" (verb form:" I was riffed")
- redundancy elimination
- refocusing job the skill mix
- refocusing of the skill mix
- resource reallocation
- reorganization
- right-sizing
- work force imbalance correction

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: Bert
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 02:23 PM

day-job-vu all over again!

yaaah! Art, ya got me running and screaming.

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 02:24 PM

The council for which I work is taking bids from private companies to become an "External Delivery Partner" in providing council services. In plain English, council services will be outsourced and mid to lower level council staff will be contracted to the External Delivery Partner. All jobs will be re-evaluated, post holders will have to apply for their jobs, those jobs will be at lower salary scale. What happens to pensions I don't even want to think about.

The council has been quite covert in it's dealings. Even Unison (labour union) were not consulted and consider that what the council has doen and is doing is illegal. Council managers only recently received very vague information to cascade down to staff.

A few Q&A road shows have been laid on but they filled up quickly as only 20 people permitted to book per session. The link to book sessions only first showed up on the organisation intranet yesterday morning. Was taken down yesterday evening before I left work. This morning when I came in to work it still was not there. About an hour later it reappeared in smalled print and different place on the page. Pointless because the new sessions they added were already full. Luckily I had booked a place for myself and 3 colleagues yesterday.

I have just put myself forward to be Unison Steward at my work because we don't have one on site. Not that I know all the ins and outs, I do have the passion and am willing to learn.

Fun times.

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 05:22 PM

Sinsull,
Recession = when your neighbor is out of a job.

Depression = when you are.

Art

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 05:43 PM

Ah, we do not have staffing issues, we have a 'pre-surplus'.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 06:48 PM

If you are laid off from McDonalds, are you dis-enfranchised?

If you are laid off from AT&T, are you disconnected?

If you are laid off from a logging company, are you defenestrated?

If.... hmmmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 06:48 PM

What ever happened to "got the ax" or "fired"?

"Downsized" makes me think of geese or lopping off someone's head. "Ann Boleyn was downsized by Hank 8."

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 06:52 PM

Alas, a lass, Rapunzel, was upbraided!

ART

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 07:09 PM

There must be more appropriate terms for this situation for our times; perhaps "previosly employed", or "occupationally challenged", or, perhaps to avoid any trace of stigma, "differently occupied".

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 09:11 PM

Claire, you forgot that all too used word, "Downsizing"

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: Escapee
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 11:32 PM

One,( especially a musician ) can be " riffed ". From " Reduction In Force "

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: Gurney
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 11:37 PM

The majority of people on this site, if sacked, could become another oxymoron.

Professional Folksingers.

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 11:40 PM

disgruntled--but what does it mean?
Art

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: kendall
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 08:17 AM

Redundant. What a word! It's bad enough to be out of a job, but to be called redundant is adding insult to injury.

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 12:00 PM

Out of Control was a oxymoron I heard very often.

People who supported the economic rape of the United States used to say I was out of control.

Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 12:37 PM

Economic Planner?
Growth Fund?
Capital Gain?