sack
"This is the text message 70 employees of a dotcom were sent just before Christmas, telling them they had lost their jobs. [...]" (The Guardian)
Aah, the sweet dot.com memories: working round the clock in the Munich office with occasional naps on the round red velvet couch, the countless free cappuccinos, the thrill of going through a downsizing and ending up with a better position within the same company, the bitter negotiations at the end of the dot.dream, my stock options now worth 0.00075p each, the laconic company email announcing the folding up of operations…
Never again, I told myself at the time. But then again, never say never is what they say.