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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by nsxwolf on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:03AM (#45732319)
I think American English is the same colloquially. “I got fired” means I didn’t perform or did something wrong. “I got laid off” is our “I was made redundant”.

“Fired” is also a technical term for both cases, in academic/economist speak.

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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by pseudalopex on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @10:17AM (#45733208)
Fired means terminated for any reason to many Americans. And academics, economists, and lawyers avoid it in my experience.
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