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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by sbarre on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @08:10AM (#45731759)
Passive vs. active voice. "Job losses" is chickenshit language.

If you're going to fire people, at least have the integrity to own your actions, instead of trying to make it sound like something that "just happened".

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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by grugagag on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @08:30AM (#45731966)
That would make Bezos look bad .
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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by jalapenos on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @08:52AM (#45732199)
"Regrettable attrition".

Going to go wash my hands after typing that.

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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by itsoktocry on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:06AM (#45732360)
>Passive vs. active voice. "Job losses" is chickenshit language.

"Job losses" isn't passive voice. "Jobs were lost" would be passive voice.

Why are people so hung up on "job losses", as if we don't hear this every day? Who cares?

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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by sbarre on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @11:18AM (#45733987)
You're being pedantic for no good reason. You know what I meant.

If you don't care about this conversation, why are you participating?

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