Sure. But this precise story is unfortunately pretty common in any big company (worldwide). As soon as the company starts to treat its workforce like a blob o

Sure. But this precise story is unfortunately pretty common in any big company (worldwide). As soon as the company starts to treat its workforce like a blob of anonymous replaceable "ressources" that you can scale up or down according to your finances, this starts to happen inevitably. Most of the time, they even manage to create enough layers in those process so that most of the people involved think they are not responsible and that they do the right thing. You want to be able to fire thousands of employees for no reason so you have to find reasons, and all you know about them is some vague impression of their own management / team that is somehow translated into some arbitrary number and then you sort people by that. What could go wrong ?