It‘s probably important to mention that the entire video team is gone. Some of them were fired, so the rest walked. They‘re planning to go independent soon.
Edit: Their new channel will be SecondWindGroup. They’ll do a livestream on November 8th at 11 AM CT, explaining their plans for the future. (Source)
Is “fired” the right term? Normally someone being “fired” indicates that they are at fault in some way. It’s not normal for people to be “fired” in bulk. It sounds more like they were laid off, like the company had to cut costs.
Nick was supposedly fired for failing to meet goals, goals he was apparently never informed that he should be targeting.
“fired” implies “termination with cause”. That is, they believe you screwed up and so you were let go without severance, and in a pinch they’re willing to go to court on that.
“Laid off” implies they did bulk downsizing and unless the company finds a way to weasel out of it, there’s going to be severance and employment insurance payouts and the like.
In the Southern states this is a distinction without a difference because they just shoot you in the face and toss you into the body pit there regardless of the cause of the termination of your employment, but in the rest of the world this distinction is real.
No.
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/laid-off-vs-fired
Being “fired” and being “laid off” are both terms that refer to the termination of an individual’s employment. A company may lay off an employee when it doesn’t have the resources to retain them, while a company may fire an employee who isn’t meeting the company’s expectations.
Fired implies that it’s disciplinary.
Let go or laid off would be the terms when it’s about lack of work or restructuring.