Except Sally now suddenly has to retrain as a salesperson. And perhaps also try to beat out other people which already have sales experience to that sales job.

Except Sally now suddenly has to retrain as a salesperson. And perhaps also try to beat out other people which already have sales experience to that sales job. This takes effort and may be achievable with a lot of gumption, sure, but now consider the entire workforce that just got fired. Are they all going to be able to pull that off?