• Kichae@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    As if anyone’s been making the distinction between “laid off” and “fired” when talking about these corporate restructurings.

    They lost their jobs. They no longer work there. That’s what they’re saying, and that’s what they’re trying to say. Words have different connotations in different contexts, and those contexts can be inferred by listening to the other words that they’ve said.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
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      11 months ago

      Yeah. It’s not real relevant to the core discussion but it seems like everyone involved has been saying “laid off in December”; I have no idea where the desire to debunk “fired” came from since I don’t think anyone’s saying fired (and yes the distinction will be a little arbitrary anyway if it turns out someone is saying it.)

      To the wider point - I’m moderately convinced now that the video is, in fact, bogus; I’m just waiting to hear a little more and then if it seems like it checks out I plan to make a follow-up post with the right information.