[Non-Sequitur]

Are you saying that people should have a “right” to a job and that companies should keep them on the payroll no matter how much it affects the firm negatively?

I think what they are saying is that companies who lay workers off to cut costs and boost profits usually do neither.

[1raider1]

You wrote: I think what they are saying is that companies who lay workers off to cut costs and boost profits usually do neither.

I think you are pulling that out of an orifice on your body.

[Lancey Howard]

As I recall, Al “Chainsaw” Dunlap actually saved some companies through strategic mass layoffs. Naturally, the history revisionists like to smear him these days, but his services were in high demand because he was successful.