I do have another theory. Ok may be a paranoid, jaded conspiracy theory after seeing everything in large sociopathic bureaucracies. What if the hiring of so

I do have another theory. Ok may be a paranoid, jaded conspiracy theory after seeing everything in large sociopathic bureaucracies. What if the hiring of so called "high profile" folks was just symbolic and with golden parachutes and secret handshakes in place. I am not talking about the tenure and level based severance amounts. But like their firing was more of a "request" with some promise to hire back once the dust settles. Use this to claim lack of discrimination in the layoff process. Look. We also laid off these X awesome folks so it could not have been targeted. Those on mat/pat/sick leaves was also just coincidental. For all we know these high profilers may just have wanted to use a sabbatical so why not help the company out in the process.