In other words, people need to talk to each other some more, and perhaps drop some egos? I'd be pissed off to high heaven to learn that my friends or family (o

In other words, people need to talk to each other some more, and perhaps drop some egos? I'd be pissed off to high heaven to learn that my friends or family (or me!) had been in previous rounds of layoffs because some simple math and a couple hours of conversations were too much for management (and previous consultants had been paid big bucks to fire people months earlier). "Management doesn't like to see people idle". WTF. This reminds me of "butts in seats" thinking, vs looking at real productivity output numbers. Worked a place years ago where some of us were "upsetting" others on the floor because every so often one of us didn't come in until 10:30 or 11. This 'upset' some of the other folks (call center, marketing, etc) who were always in by 9. It didn't matter that one of us had been on premises from 10pm-3am hours earlier doing a system push/upgrade. They didn't think it was "fair" that every 8-12 weeks someone in my group worked a 'half day'.