DoubleSpeak

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script type="text/javascript" src="http://hb.lycos.com/hb.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ratings.lycos.com/ratings/lycosRating.js.php"></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[//><!]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-start.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-middle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-end.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=262325" alt="" width="1" height="1" />  <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=728x90&section=209094"></iframe>  </noscript> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=100 BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="31800640egdysm.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B>The Message </b></FONT><B>   |     </b><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Message"><U><B>home</b></U></A></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=380 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>DoubleSpeak </I></div> <div> let go</div> <div> downsized</div> <div> unassigned</div> <div> uninstalled</div> <div> involuntarily separated from payroll</div> <div> released of resources</div> <div> given a career change opportunity</div> <div> career transitioned</div> <div> part of a normal payroll adjustment</div> <div> a focused reduction</div> <div> on no-pay status</div> <div> transitioned</div> <div> an ongoing effort to streamline operations</div> <div> part of restructuring</div> <div> outplaced</div> <div> rightsized</div> <div> work reengineered</div> <bR> <div> <B>It wasn't a lie it was</b></div> <div> a strategic misrepresentation</div> <div> the result of fictitious disorder syndrome</div> <div> terminological inexactitude</div> <div> reality augmentation</div> <div> a misstatement</div> <div> an inaccurate statement</div> <div> incomplete information</div> <div> being economical with the truth</div> <bR> <div> <B>It's not killing in combat it's</b></div> <div> neutralizing</div> <div> liquidation</div> <div> collateral damage</div> <div> servicing the target</div> <div> decommissioning the aggressor</div> <div> violence processing</div> <div> a surgical strike</div> <div> sanitizing the area</div> <div> exceeding the threshold of physiological damage</div> <div> substantive negative outcome</div> <bR> <div> taken from.  "This Shit Doesn't Stink:  Sidebar. www.stim.com/Stim-x/8.2.doublespeak/doublespeak-sidebar,html   6/4/00</div> </td> </tr></table></body>