Comments on: Recession Lexicon: Pre-Fired http://www.recessionwire.com/2009/01/31/recession-lexicon-pre-fired/ The upside of the downturn Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:42:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: alden http://www.recessionwire.com/2009/01/31/recession-lexicon-pre-fired/comment-page-1/#comment-68 alden Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:35:11 +0000 http://www.recessionwire.com/?p=389#comment-68 I always liked Stanley Bings' phrase "decruited". As in "Last October, I was decruited by my companys' cheese-movers." but that is a tale for another day. Alden I always liked Stanley Bings’ phrase “decruited”. As in “Last October, I was decruited by my companys’ cheese-movers.” but that is a tale for another day.
Alden

]]> By: Michelle Rafter http://www.recessionwire.com/2009/01/31/recession-lexicon-pre-fired/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Michelle Rafter Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:11:37 +0000 http://www.recessionwire.com/?p=389#comment-21 Sara: It's not exactly the same, but when Wells Fargo took over Wachovia last fall when the latter was on life support the offer didn't include retaining the services of 175 Wachovia employees who, according to Wells Fargo, didn't meet the company's employment criteria. Their one and only transgression? They were all former Wells Fargo stockbrokers or money managers who'd quit to work for Wachovia. So in a way you could say they were pre-fired. I'd been sorry to hear about Domino folding because I'm a faithful reader - now I'm even sorrier! Michelle Rafter Sara: It’s not exactly the same, but when Wells Fargo took over Wachovia last fall when the latter was on life support the offer didn’t include retaining the services of 175 Wachovia employees who, according to Wells Fargo, didn’t meet the company’s employment criteria. Their one and only transgression? They were all former Wells Fargo stockbrokers or money managers who’d quit to work for Wachovia. So in a way you could say they were pre-fired.

I’d been sorry to hear about Domino folding because I’m a faithful reader – now I’m even sorrier!

Michelle Rafter

]]> By: Sara Clemence http://www.recessionwire.com/2009/01/31/recession-lexicon-pre-fired/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Sara Clemence Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:26:35 +0000 http://www.recessionwire.com/?p=389#comment-15 There's a good reason you've never heard of it--we just coined the phrase last week! Humor is especially important in times like these. There’s a good reason you’ve never heard of it–we just coined the phrase last week! Humor is especially important in times like these.

]]> By: Bob Lamm http://www.recessionwire.com/2009/01/31/recession-lexicon-pre-fired/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Bob Lamm Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:17:25 +0000 http://www.recessionwire.com/?p=389#comment-14 I was a VISTA Volunteer in San Diego after college. (VISTA was the domestic equivalent of the Peace Corps, aimed at providing assistance to low-income communities in the U.S.) During our six-week training period, some volunteers were fired (in one outrageous case, simply for not hiding his contempt for the bureaucratic b.s. of the program). Except that they weren't f ired; they were either terminated or, in even more Orwellian language, they were de-selected. But I must admit I'd never heard of pre-firing till today. I could attempt a terrible joke about the possibility of preunemployment benefits, but of course this undoubtedly isn't all that funny to Sara Clemence or any reader who's been pre-fired. I wish all of you well, I wish all of us well, at this difficult time. I was a VISTA Volunteer in San Diego after college. (VISTA was the domestic equivalent of the Peace Corps, aimed at providing assistance to low-income communities in the U.S.) During our six-week training period, some volunteers were fired (in one outrageous case, simply for not hiding his contempt for the bureaucratic b.s. of the program). Except that they weren’t f ired; they were either terminated or, in even more Orwellian language, they were de-selected.

But I must admit I’d never heard of pre-firing till today. I could attempt a terrible joke about the possibility of preunemployment benefits, but of course this undoubtedly isn’t all that funny to Sara Clemence or any reader who’s been pre-fired. I wish all of you well, I wish all of us well, at this difficult time.

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