Unemployment lingo (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Don't the Brits say "made redundant"?

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> I'm doing a column on the many words and phrases for firing people:
let
> go, downsize, rightsize, shitcan, sack, discard, terminate, pink slip,
> show
> the door, etc.
>
> There are two things I'd like to sip (siphon?) from the collective
pool
> of
> wisdom:
>
> 1) What other words fit in this category? I have some recent ones like
> getting
> fit and synergy-related headcount reductions, but there must be
> more.
>
> 2) Any info on the history of shitcan? The OED doesn't have it, and
> HDAS
> doesn't go that far...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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