I worked at a company where the VPs loved to write long company wide emails. One time HR wrote "Why working at <insert this company name> is great Part 1". (If you write part 1 and part 2 corporate emails you're already doing email wrong.) They did a layoff between the time Part 1 was sent and Part 2 was sent. The scale of absurdity was difficult to measure with that one.
I was so happy when that company got acquired and the new company CEO showed up and announced that first level managers and below were all safe from layoffs, everyone above that was on a case by case basis, and "all executive staff were let go this morning, I saw no reason to keep those jokers around".
He was so right. Scored a lot of points there, never heard an executive of a large company say that so bluntly before.
I was so happy when that company got acquired and the new company CEO showed up and announced that first level managers and below were all safe from layoffs, everyone above that was on a case by case basis, and "all executive staff were let go this morning, I saw no reason to keep those jokers around".
He was so right. Scored a lot of points there, never heard an executive of a large company say that so bluntly before.