Yet, while Paul is being downsized, Audrey bails.
Some have no doubt been forced to take up the temping life after being downsized in the recession.
The banking sector, which at its peak had assets five times Ireland's annual GDP, is being downsized and recapitalised.
Seems that everywhere you look, things are being downsized: companies, paychecks, parties, trade shows and on and on.
The best bit came from a scene remixed from "Up in the Air," when Mr. Combs was shown as an employee in the process of being downsized.
But for government departments, this is a time of great uncertainty; they are being downsized with budgets slashed and staff made redundant.
"After being downsized, I was eager to get away from the 8-to-6 routine, the white shirt and tie stuff, that whole structured environment," he said.
I had to laugh at the concept of being downsized as a mom, not to mention his eerie familiarity with corporate speak for layoffs.
Jumping into a job would be particularly foolish, Mr. Goggins said, now that the stigma that was attached to being downsized in the 1990's no longer applies.
So his book tries to impart real-world skills, like salesmanship and networking, which he argues are crucial as white-collar jobs are being downsized or shipped to Bangalore.
It also means the ambitious effort to create a mammoth free trade area throughout North and South America by 2005, begun with such fanfare nine years ago, runs the risk of being downsized to a point of near irrelevance.
