Back when I was working, I saw enough layoff of workers hoping to save money. I don’t know if they saved or not. Like as not , the new worker that they hired was worse than theone they fired. We called it “fouling your own nest”...we used slightly different words. I was rather forced to quit in a similar situation once. I was salaried & they said I wasn’t prodrucing enough. True....I wasn’t, but the salary wasn’t that great anyway & I took on every job they brought to me. Couldn’t do more than that. Got my old job back, put on commission (which was the original problem anyway)& a better working situation, so I made more. I had experienced 4 different owners when I worked there & wasn’t certain but maybe only one of them knew how to run a business properly. By then, my particular job had basically been sold out from under me to another dealer. Mark me down as happy to be out & retired before now.
Working on SSI and SS now I have had enough. I have been in IT for 25 years and I used to reject both but I have had a change of heart and decided I am done with it all. Going to get my share now while I can.