The company I retired from has been bought and sold several times over the past 10 years, and the new owners have recently laid off a number of employees but no one can make sense of who or why. They have laid off some excellent, long time productive employees as well as some dead beats ones but there doesn't seem to be any pattern to who goes and who stays. And why would you replace the two productive floor supervisors with two young inexperienced recent collage graduates at double the wages? Don't get me wrong as I think everyone should have a chance to prove themselves, but after 6 months neither seems to have a direction and still don't seem to have a clue. Everyone is walking on egg shells not knowing if they're next as a result, sales and production has plummeted. I don't get it, if things aren't broken, why to fix it??? Whatever happens doesn't affect me but I still have good friends still working there and am concerned for their sake.

We're all just a number on a spreadsheet. With out seeing all metrics its hard to know.

The company I worked for for almost 35 years before selling all of it's brand name copyrights: to an American holding company that has things produced in China; required all of it's hourly employees attend a half day seminar It was titled "Making Change Work For You" . The first thing that was discussed was ;just because something is working is not a good reason to keep doing it that way. The point of the seminar was If you don't change things that work you never improve . But rather than focus on changing what was not working the attention was to change just because it was a change from the past .The fact that the company sold out within 10 years after the Making Change Work for You seminar shows that it did not work for them. But the smart people running the company knew it all until they knew nothing

A survival technique for the inept. Promote the incompetent so as to never feel threatened.

They probably sold it at profit so it probably worked.

they lay off 1/3 of the work force now then bring back the people they want after they get past 90 days probably varies by state but those people loose all their vacation , personal , seniority.

then they repeat until all of everyone benefits are gone.

cost savings

watched this exact thing happen at places my cousins worked at a few years back.

They want to trim out the old hands that will be retiring soon, so they don't have to pay them to produce nothing, while paying those who don't produce much, if anything.

Gosh don't get coonman riled up again.