{"id":2710,"date":"2013-09-13T08:38:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T08:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2013-12-16T01:04:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T01:04:48","slug":"made-redundant-no-i-was-catalyzed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2710","title":{"rendered":"Made redundant? No, I was &#8216;catalyzed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, managers have been trying to come up with anodyne terms for dismissing people and making them redundant.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the more common ones are: <em>give someone their notice, get rid of, discharge, terminate; lay off; sack, give someone the sack, fire, boot out, give someone the boot, give someone their marching orders, show someone the door, can, pink-slip; cashier<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Following this trend, bosses at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.gov.uk\/\">Bristol City Council<\/a> have now come up with another, &#8216;to catalyze&#8217;, as evidenced by a mole down the Counts Louse (<em>since renamed &#8216;City Hall&#8217; by <a href=\"http:\/\/bristol.gov.uk\/page\/george-ferguson-mayor-bristol\">Mayor Red Trousers<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=765\" title=\"Bristol politics \u2013 subtle comment\">posts passim<\/a>). Ed.<\/em>) who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCDisgruntled\/status\/378203088290861056\">tweeted<\/a> the following yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/09\/bcc_balls3.png\" alt=\"screenshot of BCCDisgruntled tweet\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/09\/bcc_balls3.png 400w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/09\/bcc_balls3-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure all employees of the council are reassured that the management has their best interests at heart by not wanting to hurt their feelings as they&#8217;re unceremoniously handed their <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P45_%28tax%29\">P45<\/a>s and shown the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, managers have been trying to come up with anodyne terms for dismissing people and making them redundant. Some of the more common ones are: give someone their notice, get rid of, discharge, terminate; lay off; sack, give someone the sack, fire, boot out, give someone the boot, give someone their marching orders, show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,15,34],"tags":[40,16,10,21,22,20,35],"class_list":["post-2710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","category-social-media","tag-bristol","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-jargon","tag-language","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}