Definition of RIF?
Linda Beckett
is the PC term used when a military service has to 'downsize' for whatever
reason.
"cafard" <cafa...@hotmail.IDONTTHINKSO.com> wrote in message
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> I've read this in a couple of books (ie. in R6, Popov was RIF'd in the
> KGB).
>
> What does RIF stand for?
>
> Tks,
loki
> I've read this in a couple of books (ie. in R6, Popov was RIF'd in the
> KGB).
>
> What does RIF stand for?
Reduction In Force.
Loki
Ogden Johnson III
>RIF means 'Reduction In Force' in other words, he was 'fired' nicely. RIF
>is the PC term used when a military service has to 'downsize' for whatever
>reason.
Actually, it's a swivel service term, which has entered the military
vocabulary somewhat. When the military "downsizes"/"rightsizes"/
"shrinks" it is generally done somewhat differently than in the
civilian or swivel service world. For all but the most severe
reductions, normal attrition over the course of a year, if the people
attritting are not replaced, usually does it. The most recent severe
reduction, post-Desert Storm, did require the military equivalent of
"buy-outs", and a *lot* of career people who would rather have stayed
did have to leave. But this was an exception. Getting back to RIF,
though; Reduction in End Strength [no acronym, no abbreviation] is the
term that the military generally uses.
OJ III
Fred J. McCall
Reduction In Force.
--
You have never lived until you have almost died.
Life has a special meaning that the protected
will never know.
Jonathan Green
forces redundant but is sounds much better for the politicians.
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Jonathan Green
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