On Apr 22, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
reallocate their human resources!


The British seem to use the term "redundant" as in "I was made redundant". What a horrible euphemism. I would much rather be sacked, laid off, fired, than be "made redundant".

        --ravi


On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Dan Scanlan
<[email protected]> wrote:
Right size their incompetent core!

On Apr 22, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Sandwichman wrote:

Off with their heads!

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Jeffrey Fisher <[email protected] >
wrote:

"down-sizing" and "right-sizing" seem positively straightforward by
comparison.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:

"synergy-related headcount reductions" -- repeated about six times (in
different forms) in a one-paragraph press release by Nokia Siemens
Networks, published in HARPER'S MAGAZINE, May 2009, p. 25.



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