Impacted
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Not a bowel or a molar. Some jobs. Today we received a letter from management detailing a reorganization, and the word they chose to describe what happened to a few fellow employees, was "impacted". It read that some positions have been transitioned to fully remote, while other positions were "impacted".
Promotions are impactful too, but it was left as an exercise for the reader to figure out that that wasn't the sort of impact they meant. I know it's easy and lame to make fun of corporate speak, but at some point, it's gross to refuse to use words just because they're too accurate of a description of what you just did.
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Stupid.
Were you impacted?
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I'm glad you weren't "impacted," Horace.
Myself and 3 of my co-workers were on the chopping block this month. My boss's boss's boss wasn't having it and pulled some very creative accounting to keep me. My 3 co-workers were all laid off for about 10 days, but she found a way to bring them back by making another company hire them to work with us again.
None of us were ultimately "affected," as they like to put it, but for others this is their last week.
Gotta hand it to our department head. I have no idea how she pulled that off but it was great news for the holidays.
