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Re:Changes at YC by karamanolev on Monday March 13, 2023 @05:01PM (#35142544)
Can we please just use "fired", "let go" or even "we separated with"? Impacted is just soft wording taken to a comedic level.
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Re:Changes at YC by smugma on Monday March 13, 2023 @05:27PM (#35143023)
Fired implies with cause. In the US, it would be "laid off" and in the UK it's often "made redundant", which is itself more ambiguous than need be.
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Re:Changes at YC by lotsofpulp on Monday March 13, 2023 @05:06PM (#35142652)
“As of today, we are no longer buying labor from 17 people we previously bought labor from”.
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