Did you leave that job because you wanted to, or because the company
wanted you to?! Let’s get our definitions clear:
To
resign
means that you voluntarily choose to leave your job:
Laura resigned from her position as she had been offered a better job
with another company.
Resignation
(n) - a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign
Diane is leaving the company next month. She handed in her (letter of)
resignation last Monday.
To be fired/ to be sacked* / to get the sack* means you were
terminated for cause
Jane
was fired for stealing company property.
John finally got the sack after a year of ineptitude.*
*informal/slang
To lay off / To be
laid-off / To be made redundant from your job means to be without a job because
there is no more work available for you in a company; the position was eliminated,
without regard to employee performance, usually when a company is experiencing
financial difficulties.
The
factory had to cut back production and lay off workers.
200
people were laid-off at the manufacturing plant in northern Spain.
Simon
is looking for a new job because he was made redundant last month.
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