I heard a story from some peers today about management in their company basically chastising the engineers for not speaking up about lack of resources to get th

I heard a story from some peers today about management in their company basically chastising the engineers for not speaking up about lack of resources to get the defects board under control. Well, everything with the defects board was going just fine until the day of the layoffs a few months back. These managers basically expect their underlings to manage up and tell them what to do. But also, don’t you dare speak up and criticize a layoff. I think many companies have been doing layoffs simply because their leadership heard that other companies are doing it, a fad trend no different than beanie babies and fidget spinners. Fast forward to a short few months later and all of a sudden they figure out that those employees they sacked did actual work.