Readers continue help with our expanding collection of corporate euphemisms for the word layoffs.
Today’s come from David Wrisley: “In 2002 the company I worked for was acquired by Alcoa. Much of the staff in our corporate headquarters, such as IT, Finance, HR, and so on were called ‘Redundant Overhead’ and a schedule was created to remove the redundant overhead over the coming year or so.”
Off with their redundant overheads!
You keep sending them and I’ll keep sharing.
