Hidden Curriculum VIP - Audio - Effortless English

We have to let you go.This is another soft way to say we have to fire you, but it sounds softer. So to letsomeone go from a job means to fire them. Now it has to be in this situation -- to letsomeone go. In other situations it might have a different meaning, but in a job situationyou say we have to let you go. It means we have to fire you. We have to, you know, endyour job.So what did her boss say to her? We have to what?We have to let you go.And that means what?We have to fire you. I’m sorry. We have to let you go. I’m sorry. We have to fire you.So who got let go?Carol. Carol got let go. Carol got fired.Did Carol get hired or did she get let go?Well, she got let go. She got fired, not hired.And how did she feel about being let go?Oh, horrible, upset, terrible, she cried. She cried. She couldn’t believe she was failingfor the first time in her life. She’d always been such a good girl.So she cried and she cried and she cried for days and days and weeks andweeks. She cried for months and she beat herself up constantly.What does that mean? Did she hit herself?No, she did not hit herself.To “beat yourself up” means to criticize yourself all the time; to say bad things toyourself about yourself.So how did she beat herself up?www.EffortlessEnglishClub.com