cornflake redundancy syndrome
n.— «Lawyer Jane Fraser looks at new legislation which aims to clamp down on the phenomenon of “cornflake redundancy syndrome”—a term coined to describe situations where employees first learn they have lost their jobs via the breakfast news.» —“Secretive employers ‘on thin Ice’” by Jane Fraser BBC News (U.K.) Apr. 5, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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