Wednesday, March 18, 2009

RIDICULOUS EUPHEMISM OF THE DAY: SYNERGY-RELATED HEADCOUNT RESTRUCTURING

Nokia-Siemens actually used the ridiculous phrase "synergy-related headcount restructing" as a euphemism for "firing" in a company memo:


For example, here's a headline on a press release forwarded to me this week: "Nokia Siemens Networks enters final stage of synergy-related headcount restructuring."
"Hi, honey, I'm afraid I have bad news: I've been synergy-related headcount restructured."
 

1 comments:

hotel123 said...

Haha! Hilarious!