[Kobi]

I am wondering how the phrase "timed out" was chosen to indicate those who have been naughty. Time outs make me think of misbehaving children....which indeed we can be. But it's kind of belittling as well.

I'm wondering if there is a more age appropriate phrase like.....on sabbatical, reviewing options, exploring new opportunities, forced vacation, thinking it over, suspended, barred, banished, inactive, exiled, paused, blocked, sequestered, defrocked, disqualified, quashed, sidelined, locked out, vetoed, busted, lockdown, inoperative, idled, frozen etc.

Hm, think I might have just answered my own question.