Last night I was looking for one thing on the Internet and stumbled upon another. The thing I found (that I wasn't looking for) was a word unfamiliar to me. Have you heard the word "dooced" before? I hadn't. I was reading a blog post about social networking data presents challenges and spotted the word. If you know what "dooced" means, no need to read further. If you don't, here's one definition of dooced:
the act of being fired for blogging about one's employer
You can read more about the word and its origin here. Having a fascination of words, I now have a new one to add to my existing list that describes a person's involuntary departure from an organization: fired, downsized, rightsized, eliminated, reduced, dismissed, made redundant, terminated, RIF, let go and as of last evening, "dooced." Perhaps you've already seen this word listed on a job application as reason for leaving.
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