Stop misusing "fired" when you mean "laid off." "Fired" implies misconduct; "laid off" implies downsizing. Use these terms accurately to protect professional reputations.
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@OP
fired
adjective
Let go from a job.
Having lost your job
Merriam Webster - Dismissed from your job
Agree with you 100%, but consider the source.
Expecting illiterates to pay attention to detail, be grammatically correct, and/or know the difference between simply-defined terms is apparently expecting too much out of today's "adults".
This is the generation of soft, fluffy lames, who only cosplay at being grown. They whine about having to be self-sufficient, aren't into "adulting", put the dollar sign after a number instead of before it, and don't know when to use "a" vs. "an" when preceding a word which begins with a vowel.
Is it any wonder that they also don't know the difference between being, "laid off" vs. being "fired"?
The even weirder thing is, whenever one might gently correct them on such things, they don't want to hear it. Their artificially-inflated egos refuse to allow them to open up to real learning, so they may progress out of ignorance and into some semblance of maturity and relevent, basic knowledge, in order to successfully present themselves to the world as being even basically competent. They're actually content with being ignorant, and lash out at anyone who would DARE to state the basic truth that they still have a lot to learn, and could benefit from some basic guidance.
Not sure if it's because most of them have been Vaxxed2theMaxx as babies with the newer schedule which poisons them to oblivion, the psych0medz which most of them are on, sideways parenting they experienced, and/or the MarkxistCommee teachers they've been brainwashed by, but something is definitely amiss en masse with these people!
@OP Yeah, because personal reputations can get really damaged by using the wrong word on an anonymous chat group that is used by just a few people.
Get a life