Older Names & Layoffs

Dangerous Dave talks about a list of old school names that will probably never make a comeback. Plus, businesses would rather lay you off than fire you to save your feelings.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
He's in the dead with dangerous. He seems like every
kid named Liam and Olivia these days. It's not always
the case names go in and out of fashion. But
there's a list of old school names that people think
will never be popular again. So they asked online for
people to chime in, what names do you think will
never be popular again? Some of the highlights include elmol

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at least partially because of Sesame Street, Kermit for the
same reason, Gay for women and Gaylord for men, Ebenezer
Adolph for obvious reasons, Errol Horace, Karen Fanny Isis Bertholomew
Bertha Alexa? Is that really an old school name though,
Alexa and I know some people that are, But just
because of Amazon, it's kind of screwed things up. Other

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ones making the list Lance Cletus, Prudence, Charity, Archibald and
Broom Hilda Broom Hilda. I don't know if that will
ever make a comeback. Deeper in the well. Companies are
pretty passive aggressive now, and if you're going to can
me at least have the courtesy to look me in
the eye and tell me I suck. A new poll
on the site, a resume builder found thirty eight percent

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of companies layoff people instead of firing them just to
avoid hurting their feelings. Eighty percent of bosses say their
companies laid somebody off in the past year when they
could have fired them for cause. Sometimes it's out of
kindness to avoid hurting your feelings and to help out
with severance, but the number one reason more self serving
to avoid mutiny. Top reasons that companies laid people off

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instead of fire to maintain company morale. Sixty two percent
of bosses cited that for a reason. To avoid wrongful
termination lawsuits close second at fifty nine percent, to help
a person with the severance package at fifty four percent,
and avoid hurting their feelings at thirty eight percent. The
old line, I know, I think you're great, but corporate
gave me no choice. Now, according to the Pole, layoffs

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really are more common than you think. Half a boss's
polled said seventy five percent of layoffs in their company
they've made in the past year weren't really about cutting costs.
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