I left my office for 45 min yesterday. When I came back, my director and one of the other department managers had been fired. To be completely honest I knew they were both on the way out. You can only get away so much, but for so long.

As word got around, we all found out 150 people got fired/let go yesterday. They called it "cutting the fat". It sucks to see grown people crying, especially those who you know had nothing else but this job. They've cut all the departments to skeletons of their former selves. They feel if you can perform at the same level as you did with 6 people, with only 3 or 4 people, why not. The timing is really bad though. The holidays are the worst time for this to happen. But this is how the cookie crumbles.