• Kichae@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    As if anyone’s been making the distinction between “laid off” and “fired” when talking about these corporate restructurings.

    They lost their jobs. They no longer work there. That’s what they’re saying, and that’s what they’re trying to say. Words have different connotations in different contexts, and those contexts can be inferred by listening to the other words that they’ve said.