Local man, Thomas Oliver, was shocked to discover Friday that he had been terminated from his middle management knowledge worker position for a downtown graphic design firm.
“I did receive a letter,” acknowledges a clearly flummoxed Oliver, 35, “congratulating me on my decision to ‘lean into the radical possibilities of new and exciting career vectors’…but I truly had no idea that such corporate speak meant that I had been fired.”
As of this writing, Oliver notes that he is suing the unnamed design firm for lost wages, claiming that he would have begun searching for a new job weeks earlier had his termination been more clearly communicated and understood.
“Just as I had done for the past two-plus years, I continued to log into my online meetings from my kitchen while wearing sweatpants,” states Oliver. “And frankly, in terms of meeting attendance or productivity, I didn’t really notice any difference from when I was actually employed.”