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  • Gretaundefined Offline
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    This is [corporate] slang for [sacking] workers, used to avoid actually admitting that this is what youre doing.

    Workers beware! They think they can stop us fighting back by using these kinds of words so we dont figure out what theyre up to until its [too late].

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      the practice of making a company or an organization smaller by reducing the number of people working for it, or an occasion when this is done:

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