In my penultimate life as a Recruitment Consultant I was approached by many folk who'd lost their jobs through company "restructuring". Inevitably they'd say, "I've been made redundant" - and were then surprised to get a gentle chiding from me that their choice of words was not helping their self esteem.

I always explained that they were certainly NOT redundant, rather the position they'd held had become redundant and they'd been retrenched.

A simple thing, but I believe once they'd told a lot of people they were redundant they'd soon start to believe it.

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