It’s a word which usually appear in the headline for past 1 year to 6 months and still you can hear this word somewhere here and there. Being in an IT I’ve seen people got fired and left the office in front me and it’s happening everywhere. He/She might have worked for decades and the time allowed for them to vacate the office is just 30 minutes, few of them might have stayed in the same cube or office for the whole period and it really hurts their feeling. It’s not a bullet which is always being shot at non performers, sometimes it will be aimed at an issue raiser, a problem maker or a risk maker (or the one who takes the risk). I know people who have worked for 24X7 and still they got fired and sometimes people who used to cover their subordinates will also get into this list. I am assuming that people used to have a scale and keep watching you and when you go out the boundary that’s it, you are gone. In some cases the management might want to fire somebody but they can’t because of their dependability.