I was at a company once that had layoffs where the company said that they were going to lay off managers. An old timer succinctly summed up how it would go as f

I was at a company once that had layoffs where the company said that they were going to lay off managers. An old timer succinctly summed up how it would go as follows........ You have a tree full of monkeys. So you shake the hell out of the tree to get the monkeys out of hit. How many monkeys do you have in the tree after your done? The same number, they are just in different branches.