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09 Jan 09 - 01:51 PM (#2536269) Subject: BS: new oxymorons for the new decade! From: Art Thieme 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 |
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09 Jan 09 - 02:05 PM (#2536278) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: SINSULL 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"? |
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09 Jan 09 - 02:09 PM (#2536282) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: gnu Yup. |
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09 Jan 09 - 02:18 PM (#2536292) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: ClaireBear 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 |
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09 Jan 09 - 02:23 PM (#2536298) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: Bert day-job-vu all over again! yaaah! Art, ya got me running and screaming. |
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09 Jan 09 - 02:24 PM (#2536301) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: VirginiaTam 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. |
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09 Jan 09 - 05:22 PM (#2536488) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: Art Thieme Sinsull, Recession = when your neighbor is out of a job. Depression = when you are. Art |
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09 Jan 09 - 05:43 PM (#2536507) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: Liz the Squeak Ah, we do not have staffing issues, we have a 'pre-surplus'. LTS |
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09 Jan 09 - 06:48 PM (#2536572) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: Bill D 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 |
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09 Jan 09 - 06:48 PM (#2536573) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: Rapparee 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." |
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09 Jan 09 - 06:52 PM (#2536576) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: Art Thieme Alas, a lass, Rapunzel, was upbraided! ART |
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09 Jan 09 - 07:09 PM (#2536590) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: frogprince 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". |
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09 Jan 09 - 09:11 PM (#2536676) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity Claire, you forgot that all too used word, "Downsizing" |
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09 Jan 09 - 11:32 PM (#2536772) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: Escapee One,( especially a musician ) can be " riffed ". From " Reduction In Force " |
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09 Jan 09 - 11:37 PM (#2536775) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: Gurney The majority of people on this site, if sacked, could become another oxymoron. Professional Folksingers. |
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09 Jan 09 - 11:40 PM (#2536778) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: Art Thieme disgruntled--but what does it mean? Art |
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10 Jan 09 - 08:17 AM (#2536976) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: kendall Redundant. What a word! It's bad enough to be out of a job, but to be called redundant is adding insult to injury. |
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10 Jan 09 - 12:00 PM (#2537175) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: Donuel 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. |
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10 Jan 09 - 12:37 PM (#2537202) Subject: RE: BS: a new oxymoron for 2009! From: Richard Bridge Economic Planner? Growth Fund? Capital Gain? |