I’ve been involved directly or through family through five layoffs in the last three years. You’re so right.

These companies all hire Bain Capital, their consultants open their “defaultwallstreetfellatingdystopianlayoffplan.docx,” and talk to upper management who has no idea what people on the ground do. They put the people and salaries in a spreadsheet, show the CEO, and nobody in a decision-making role ever directly confronts human-to-laid-off-human the cost of what they are doing.