Engineer at a large manufacturer late 90's. After a week of rumors. All hands meeting. Parent company VP on the stage with "Great News for our Location!" Full enthusiastic pitch. Message: We bought a smaller company in a small town in the North East, they were profitable, good product, but we can do better. Will be laying off 200 of the 210 employees. Moving half of their products to our plant, the other half to the Mexico plant. Later we learned the work coming to our plant would be done by new workers as the current workers wages were to high.
I decided to quit whilst standing there listening to him. As he spoke, he was thrilled, and was telling us how thrilled we should all be for what great news this was to the company. Distinctly remember thinking, oh! these guys are evil.
I decided to quit whilst standing there listening to him. As he spoke, he was thrilled, and was telling us how thrilled we should all be for what great news this was to the company. Distinctly remember thinking, oh! these guys are evil.