Layoffs, downsizings and rightsizings all mean the same thing: The company will continue long after you are gone. Companies have come up with creative names to describe when they eliminate jobs and people that they don’t need. They used to call it a layoff ie. “We are laying people off. You are being laid off.” [...]

The key to remaining employed is to ensure that your name stays out of the company directory. A former colleague of mine once told me this while we were working for a company that was known for having restructurings several times per year that resulted in job losses each time. I was working on contract [...]