Laying people off?

[Ridge]

My company is pretty famous for what it calls "Talent Upgrades," every couple years they lay off one person from each department with the intention of refilling their space with new hires. My department has 3 teams, each one lost a person. One of those teams then took a guy from my team to fill their spot.

It was a pretty terrifying experience, I found myself holding back a panic attack when it happened 5 months ago. It signaled a big change in our team. We were happy people last fall, but when that happened in November, we all got really depressed and we haven't bounced back. I love the people I work with, and my direct management, but we all pretty much despise our upper management as a result of that and other decisions they've made, openly criticizing them amongst ourselves.

[th3w01f]

Police showing up??? Wow, that's a crappy way to so you that they still respect you. At least we're not going that far.

We were happy people last fall, but when that happened in November, we all got really depressed and we haven't bounced back. I love the people I work with, and my direct management, but we all pretty much despise our upper management as a result of that and other decisions they've made, openly criticizing them amongst ourselves.

This is my main worry, the people leaving and the people that are left can easily find work so that's not a concern. I'm worried that morale will never bounce back to where it was.

This is a massive restructuring thanks to a Leveraged Buy Out. I don't have exact numbers but my initial guess is 1000 of 2500 are going across the company. We were very profitable but sales weren't increasing fast enough. I'm not sure who's going to be left to sell after this is over.