Going forward employees need to pay close attention to weekly changes and “optimizations”. The branch optimizations that have been carried out over the last year or two were clearly making the assistant manager position obsolete. This pattern is likely to continue with other positions in the company.
This!!! So much what @11DvdIse-1oad said. There are always subtle (and not so subtle) hints about what's coming next. If nothing else, picking up on them can push us to create a backup plan so we are not blindsided.