Upper management needs us back in the office to justify their existence and exorbitant paychecks. They have to attempt to rationalize to the Board and the shareholders that the company cannot operate effectively without management being there to watch over our every move and to be the big men in charge of it all. It’s no longer the 1980s, and Gordon Gekko went to jail.
It’s pure bs. In what other world can they justify bringing in more superfluous highly-paid Do-Nothings and eliminating the lower-paid people who are actually doing the work and serving the customers. Soon we will be a company of people who all want to be Kings, but who can’t do any of the work. Charlie is spending billions on stock buy-backs because he knows it’s all smoke and mirrors, and he needs to manipulate that stock price up to make it look like he’s turning the company around. He is obscuring the truth of the situation with deception and embellishment.