the.com/sacking
The moment a company admits hiring you was their mistake, not yours.
means Being dismissed from a job, usually without much ceremony.
from From 'sack' — the old practice, dating to at least the 1800s in English (with French and Dutch parallels), of a dismissed workman literally collecting his tools in a bag or sack and leaving. 'To get the sack' and 'to sack someone' both grew from that image of packing up and going.
- origin
- from workers carrying tools home in a sack
- uk vs us
- brits get sacked, americans get fired
- legal twist
- wrongful dismissal can cost more than the salary
- euphemism era
- now rebranded as restructuring or right-sizing