So, several notes: 1) business bureaucracy is, in truth, more or less like the inside of the old Soviet bureaucracy and Politburo, except instead of getting ki

So, several notes: 1) business bureaucracy is, in truth, more or less like the inside of the old Soviet bureaucracy and Politburo, except instead of getting killed or imprisoned you get fired. There is no guarantee of fairness or rationality. 2) this sort of thing happens more often if it's a "shrinking pond", where people start to think that somebody's going to get laid off, so they need to start discrediting somebody else so it won't be them. In good times, everybody has more work that needs doing than they have people to do it, and they behave differently (typically). 3) it is never easy to get a different job, and especially not in tech right now, but it's harder when you don't have one; you should start looking now.