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Mine wanted to get paid. Can you imagine it? Building the best product ever just wasn't enough. P45's all round and the issue was solved, permanently.
by travelbuffoon 8y ago
Mine wanted to get paid. Can you imagine it? Building the best product ever just wasn't enough.
P45's all round and the issue was solved, permanently.
- azhenley 8y agoFor non-UK readers: according to Wikipedia, P45 is slang for firing an employee.
- rdiddly 8y agoThanks... so kind of like how we would say 'pink slip' in the US.
- edwinbalani 8y agoYep - in reality it's the number/code of the HMRC (tax authority) form you get when you leave a job.
- alexbilbie 8y agoA P45 is the official document you receive when you leave employment (fired or not), it isn’t slang for anything though you may be threatened with a P45
- azhenley 8y ago"The term is used in British slang as a metonym for termination of employment." [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P45_(tax) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P45_(tax)
- kurtisc 8y agoYou seem to be telling someone who lives in London how British slang is used because you read about it a few minutes before on Wikipedia.
- quickthrower2 8y agoFellow Brit here. Born, bred and then f'd off elsewhere. I'd argue P45 is slang for being fired. Its slang because P45 has nothing directly to do with being fired. It is a tax document related to changing employment.
- kurtisc 8y agoSomething to do with acquiring a P45 as a noun, yes. P45 isn't itself a verb that means firing as I infer the OP to be saying.
- lewisflude 8y agoI agree (born and live in London). I've never heard P45 used as slang, maybe you could use "given a P45" to suggest someone was fired though.
- collyw 8y agoSo you didn't pay them?