It kills me that the company that I work for (not some huge secret, though I'd probably prefer if it wasn't named so as not to show up in a BBS search) has an unblemished, outstanding record of laying people -- good people -- off for what seems to be three of the last four years. Yes, the only thing that apparently keeps people their jobs in May (where I work, anyway) is when the economy has a near-record boom. Any other sort of economic climate... and I mean [i]any[/i], including this one, where they announced layoffs IN THE SAME press release that announced that bookings were up and that business was picking up ... will result in the hammer being dropped.

I am actually half-in two different software groups in my company. (I know that sounds Dilbertesque, but it really isn't.) A guy got whacked in both of those groups. Solid citizens, both of them. Admittedly, they don't really hire jerks at my particular company (this is definitely [i]not[/i] the case in every other place I've been, in my career) but I didn't think that anybody deserved to lose their job when they walked into work on Monday. I wonder how anyone else takes this company seriously, what with their inability to manage their staff. They also have fuckedcompany.com blocked, which is always a sign of a secure upper management. (Course, fuckedcompany is now attempting to charge for access to comments and rumors, so I imagine everyone has fled someplace else by now.)