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I guarantee you they didn't take the time to carefully prune the dead branches, yo.

These mass layoff like this are purely for corporate greed so they can report better numbers to shareholders before end of their fiscal year sometime around Q2.

They're not to cut inefficiencies or streamline anything, that's just corporate doublespeak. I'm sorry you worked in a shitty office, and I'm sure at times it felt like razing the Earth was the only way to move forward, but your projecting that onto a different situation.

I would be the first to ask:

But who do you think survived the purge?

The politicians, the protected. Some may have been collateral, especially in the case of entire department wipes but you can bet they weren’t the first to go.

The quality of the employee is neither here nor there really. It’s all about the money now saved, and converted into C-suite bonuses.

One big problem is when you think the shittiness is going to be fixed now. Those employees weren't the root of the problem, which is still down there and growing. It's not Jews or "Illuminati" either. It's harder than that.

I agree that Blizzard, and many other gaming companies, have continued to dig deeper into shittiness. The thing is, these lay-offs were not surgical or even tactical. They were lines on a spreadsheet and numbers in a column. In the corporate world this is what's called "Spreadsheeting". Column B was adjusted until Column C was in the range that the C-Suite wanted. Toxic employees are probably still there, shitty managers are still there. The office politics are still there. The people that were let go where simply the ones that made the columns easier to balance out.

Is the manager who passed you over for promotion in the room with us now ?