[lastchance]

You do know that not everyone can just pick up and move, don’t you? You do know that for certain people the job market is very, very tight and not getting better, right? So to just flippantly tell people go somewhere else is rather myopic. It is not as if they don’t know their options or the time it may take to get there. It’s just that for many the practical steps of doing so are not going to happen overnight.

[Alberta's Child]

I understand that. My point is that this didn't happen overnight. It actually took years -- maybe even more than a decade -- to unfold.

I have friends who were laid off from Toys R Us as "cost-cutting measures" YEARS AGO after the leveraged buyout. The departure of that institutional knowledge was a big reason why the company fell apart.