Whenever someone is fired or replaced these days, the phrase, "We've decided to go in a different direction" has become the knee-jerk justification.
Isn't this really just another way of saying, "We want to get rid of you and/or not have to pay you anymore without having to justify it"?
Is "going in a different direction" really just a way for employers to save face?
Absolutely. Translation: “we’ve decided to go in a different direction... away from you, loser.”
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Sometimes people really go in different directions.
shareThere should be a law against instant termination.
Employers should be required to give a 2-week notice prior to termination and instead say,
"It's time to start winding this thing down."
I came across that euphemism the other day while watching some older The Price is Right episodes on YouTube. Rich Fields was the announcer and I wondered what happened to him:
Fields' stint as The Price Is Right announcer ended in July 2010. In a statement on his website, he said Mike Richards, the show's producer at the time, was going in a "new direction", and preferred to make it "more of a 'variety show within a game show'."
when someone at my last work got fired, they didn't use that.
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