Sounds like your company had no idea why they were doing the lay offs so just go rid of workers lower down the chain while keeping their friends. I've seen the

Sounds like your company had no idea why they were doing the lay offs so just go rid of workers lower down the chain while keeping their friends. I've seen the same thing happen in a large corp I've worked for directed by the advice of McKinsey. The funny thing in this case though was that it was Accenture which advised them to hire the engineering department two years prior to help with innovation. Then after a couple of years of building out the team they advised them fire the whole department and outsource it to cut costs. The only people who remained were managers.