With so many magazines and newspapers shuttering their windows for the final times these days, is there any polite way to tell the 600 people from Time Inc. that they're going to lose their jobs, right when they were in the middle of reporting how everyone else is losing their jobs. Shudder.

Not to be too superstitious, but there has to be a good-karma way to lay off the massive amounts of employees necessary in the upcoming days/months without being too big of a dick about it. And although HR lingo usually gets on our nerves, it's still better for the ego to hear "You're being transitioned" instead of "You're fired!" Just ask anyone on The Apprentice.

Here are some of the most recent line of bullshit favored by media organizations:

• "We're not downsizing, we're right-sizing"

• "We're restructuring"- Times Inc.

•"We're not folding, we're reallocating resources"- Christian Science Monitor

• "You're not being fired, you're being 'transitioned" - In Touch

• "We're not letting you go, you're just freelancing for us from now on"- The Daily Show