promote to customer

verb

To end someone's employment.

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Meanings

verbpromote to customer (third-person singular simple present promotes to customer, present participle promoting to customer, simple past and past participle promoted to customer)

present singular third person promotes to customer · participle present promoting to customer · participle past promoted to customer · past promoted to customer

  1. euphemisticinformaltransitiveTo end someone's employment.

    In the case of RadioShackSucks.com, many of the site participants reported being former employees (or in the vernacular of the Web site, employees who had been “promoted to customer”.

    2006, Loril M. Gossett, Julian Kilker, “My Job Sucks: Examining Counterinstitutional Web Sites as Locations for Organizational Member Voice, Dissent, and Resistance”, in Management Communication Quarterly, volume 20, number 1, →DOI, page 72

Synonyms & antonyms

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