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		eru on Jan 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Activision Blizzard pushes out dozens of employees... Europe is a big place with lots of different cultures and regulations. Eg in Germany, employers are both legally obliged to give a reference and to make it not-negative. It's a weird place.

guardian5x on Jan 18, 2022 [–]

Which they basically circumvent, by using a language where a reference which is just good and not extremely good means it's a bad reference.

eru on Jan 18, 2022 | [–]

Courts have started catching on and are punishing the most well known euphemisms, too.

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