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To: Steelfish

“The Hales were said to have been affected by stress after Mr Hale ‘totally messed up’ his PhD studies. He was also due to be made redundant.”....

What’s it mean to be “redundant”?


17 posted on 10/13/2009 8:31:57 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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“The Hales were said to have been affected by stress after Mr Hale ‘totally messed up’ his PhD studies. He was also due to be made redundant.”....

What’s it mean to be “redundant”?

Never mind, I just looked it up... it means “a superfluity”... now it makes perfect sense....


20 posted on 10/13/2009 8:34:51 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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To: Sleeping Freeper

It’s euphemism speak for “laid off”.


35 posted on 10/13/2009 8:54:35 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Sleeping Freeper

What’s it mean to be “redundant”?

I don’t know, ask Hillery.


59 posted on 10/14/2009 2:00:28 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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