Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears
TehPers@beehaw.org 13 hours agoIt’s used outside of UK too. I’ve seen it used in the US, for example. Usually it’s just a corporate term that says “you’re fired” but without saying that. They use terms like these all the time to try not to take accountability for fucking someone’s life up.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Yes, but this is a BBC article and they don’t say laid off they say “made redundant”, its not a sanitizer term in UK, it is just the legal term everyone goes by for when you lose your job.