Very rarely are employees “fired” anymore. They are often “let go”, or “laid off” or other phrases that soften the truth. KFI AM-640 morning host Bill Handel wonders why we don’t just say what actually happened.
During his Handel on the News segment Wednesday, Bill Handel joked about the situation at the Los Angeles Times, where one of the outlet’s editors is departing the company with two days notice after a “mutual agreement” that their departure was best for both sides.
Handel argued it was clear the employee was fired, and no one could really be enticed to believe differently. That’s when he argued that if he were to ever depart KFI, he’d be transparent about what went down.
“If I ever get ‘fired’, fired, and any company that is ever going to issue any kind of release or say crap like that, I immediately will beat them to it,” Handel said. “‘I got my ass fired. And anything you hear differently than that is simply untrue.'”
Handel concluded by lamenting the way departures are often phrased, mocking the terms “mutual agreement”, “other ventures”, “spending more time with their family” and “We wish them best of luck on their new endeavor”.
