A couple gets engaged, then never, ever gets laid.
(When money is around, we're meant to think, everyone gets laid).
When a miner gets laid off, his name goes on a seniority list.
He gets laid a lot, but also beaten up a lot; he lacks the instincts of a survivor.
Or sometimes, especially if everyone is doing the bare minimum, the whole company essentially gets laid off — by its competition.
Because of seniority rules dictating who gets laid off first, the small schools stand to lose a disproportionate share of teachers.
Buy from Amazon.comWHEN Clay Jannon, a young web-designer from San Francisco, gets laid off, he takes a job at Mr Penumbra's round-the-clock bookshop.
Stephanie, an executive administrator for a finance group in Minnesota, gets laid off, and the only benefit she qualifies for is "a measly little unemployment check".
In "Learning Curve," she played my civics teacher, who gets laid off while giving a lesson on the history of protest in Chicago's public schools.
On the one hand, he is clearly enjoying it ('A married man, if he's lucky, gets laid once a week. I'm a bachelor. Work it out').
