That's the fun I now have to explain it on my resume and in interviews.
I received severance so I was not fired otherwise no severance. I asked HR "So then I'm laid off?" but was told no it's because I was not the right fit. My job is or was very specific and I live in a small town with elderly sick parents so moving is not an option for me.
All my performance reviews were perfect great comments from my manager and I got along with all the staff. I was struggling to fit my tasks into a workday cut in half to four hours but I had the same duties as I did in an eight hour day. Which used to be done by three people!
Backstory I was officially an employee of the head office but worked in a satellite office but I wasn't an employee of the satellite office. The satellite office said they wanted to hire their own for the job I was doing and the head office said they had no job for me. Poof! Job gone. But the weird part is I was an employee of the satellite office for six years then "moved" to become a head office employee but my desk never moved I was always in the same place, same office, same building.
Then I see my job advertised one week later, I was barred from setting foot on the premises and was also told not to apply since I was "not the right fit", a direct quote from HR.
Sorry for the rant it just spilled out. I'm getting better no more panic attacks and I can breathe better. Onward and upward.
I think he means there wasn't a bunch of layoffs where a whole department was let go or the company had fallen on hard times and needed to drastically cut the workforce. So the gp was laid off it was personal rather than structural. You could say that technically the person was fired without cause but 'fired' and 'laid off' don't have any legal meaning, an employment lawyer would likely just say the person's employment was terminated without cause.
How does that work, logistically?