> Notice how the vast majority of workers laid off will not be the same managers who made those bad choices. You've been working off these assumptions -- that

> Notice how the vast majority of workers laid off will not be the same managers who made those bad choices. You've been working off these assumptions -- that low-level people will be fired first, and that some group of people clearly made "bad decisions" -- since your original comment, and keep repeating them in some form in all subsequent comments, without a single shred of evidence for either. They are getting rid of 200 people, not very many at Wal-Mart's size, and are still hiring in multiple key areas. Maybe they just decided, with business contracting, it was the right time to eliminate the slackers, the less-skilled, the I'd-never-shop-at-Wal-Marts, the morale-draggers. > the more important your skill of "foresight" is Nobody foresaw a global pandemic shutting down economies and freezing major trade routes from Asia, to be followed by massive inflation and huge increases in borrowing costs.