{"id":243,"date":"2014-07-12T16:25:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T06:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2014-07-14T20:55:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T10:55:33","slug":"congratulations-youve-been-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/2014\/blog\/miscellaneous\/congratulations-youve-been-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations! You&#8217;ve been Fired!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They always have such fancy terms for being\u00a0<strong>fired<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>let go<\/strong>. No we don\u2019t want to hold you back any longer, we\u2019re \u2018letting\u2019 you go. Or maybe you were holding on too tight to the security rope of your job and they couldn\u2019t hold your weight any longer, so they let go\u2026aaaaaaaayeeeee!<\/li>\n<li><strong>re-trenched<\/strong>\u00a0sounds very war or sports analogous. We\u2019re putting you back in the trenches, you\u2019ve been benched. Or worse, having a ditch dug for you to lie down in \u2014\u00a0permanently.<\/li>\n<li><strong>redundant<\/strong>. what does that even mean? They hired 2 people (or more) to do the same job? Who stuffed that up? Ahem, I think the hirer should be fired first!<\/li>\n<li>Then you hear\u00a0<strong>down-sized<\/strong>\u00a0a lot (especially after the dot com boom), very politically correct and impersonal. Hey, nothing to do with me, it was the company, got too big, market turned sour. Usually more true than any other scenario.<\/li>\n<li>Then there\u2019s always the ol\u2019\u00a0<strong>getting the pink slip<\/strong>. Very early 20th century.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think of all the synonyms, I like\u00a0<strong>freed<\/strong>\u00a0the best.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations<ins id=\"firstdiff\"><\/ins>! You\u2019ve been freed to pursue the next best thing in your life! I realised it was unplanned on your part, but everyone needs a little nudge now and then. The bright side is you can think of it as a favour.<\/p>\n<p>[written to a friend who recently got [ahem] re-trenched].<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-243\" data-postid=\"243\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-243 themify_builder\">\n\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They always have such fancy terms for being\u00a0fired. let go. No we don\u2019t want to hold you back any longer, we\u2019re \u2018letting\u2019 you go. Or maybe you were holding on too tight to the security rope of your job and they couldn\u2019t hold your weight any longer, so they let go\u2026aaaaaaaayeeeee! re-trenched\u00a0sounds very war or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}