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I am still in shock and awe at being fired.
We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing.
Eventually, I became involved with somebody and I was fired.
Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.
You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.
The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.
Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.
I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed
'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.
I had a little house, and I sold that and moved into a condo, then sold the condo... I kept downsizing and downsizing.
On 'Downsizing,' I had a trailer, and I got to bring my dog to work, and I thought, 'I've made it: I'm bringing my dog to work.'
I don't want anyone to think I took this role in 'Downsizing' because it was the only role available to me. I'm not a passive participant in it.
There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.
Product downsizing in the face of inflation in order to maintain retail price points has long been used by food companies, notably manufacturers of candy.
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
People's financial situation has changed, and they surrender their cats all the time, because they're downsizing or moving to a property where they are not allowed to have pets.
But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.
With 'Downsizing,' a lot of the discussion hasn't been about the film itself, but about cultural and political conversations happening outside of it. It's being digested in the context of the time.
In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.
In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.
The Barrow Administration, with its misguided philosophy of big government wanting to own or control every facet of economic activity in Belize, has depressed and squeezed out the private sector. The inevitable result is mass firing of workers, foreclosures, and downsizing.
What about Hong Chau? In typical supporting-part fashion, she shows up halfway through 'Downsizing,' already shrunk, an imperious Vietnamese house cleaner with a limp and sharp angles. The movie's satirical cleverness upstages its rage; then Ms. Chau proves she's capable of managing both.