Seldom are heard discouraging words, "You're fired!"

STLtoday - Business - Workplace

"Instead, many companies have adopted more surreptitious ways to get
rid of unwanted employees. Human-resources experts call it "managing out," a
way to nudge an employee out the door while minimizing legal exposure.
Sometimes it involves making a worker's job so miserable that he'll quit. Other
times, it might mean building an airtight cause for a firing, even if the cause
is bogus."