Some of you have heard recently about my company going through layoffs. In January they let about 5% of employees go, worldwide. Now in my position, that causes barely a ripple, for having such a demanding and lifestyle-disrupting job, there is a great deal of turnover every year. In fact, it's routine to fire about 5% of the field employees every year, not just in times of economic crisis. And from the things that I've heard, the people they let go from the field were consistent under-performers, and should have been concerned for their job in any case.
But that was not why I started this post. I wanted to share with you all the AMAZING euphemism one of our managers used to describe these layoffs in an office-wide email. He called it, and I quote, "a performance-based group separation exercise." Have fun twisting your minds around that little piece of circumlocution (thank you, www.thesaurus.com for that wonderfully apt word).
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