LAYOFF LUST

(LAY.off lust)

n.

The strong desire to be laid off from one's job.

A new term has entered the language: "layoff lust," the sudden desire to be sent away with a severance package, providing time at last to search for meaning and cultivate the soul.

— Cullen Murphy, "Fast-Free Living,"The Atlantic Monthly, April, 2002

Gen X Embraces the Recession By Going to Plan B:Layoff Lust

— Headline,New York Observer, December 10, 2001

boomerang

cashier

corporate anorexia

exit memo

funemployment

pink-slip party

RIF

uninstalled

warm-chair attrition

Layoffs and Firings