In my region they blindly fired every bulk and frozen buyer. Now somehow we have to squeeze 16 hours of daily work onto everyone else. Some of these buyers had been with the company many years, some of which have had multiple positions through the company and found themselves in that role at this time. I had a frozen buyer who was a dairy buyer then moved to a supervisor and then a frozen buyer.They were going through ATL training to move up in the company and now they are instantly gone because of a non specific choice to get rid of a large amount of people instantly. This is someone who was going to end up running their own store one day and now they are poof gone for no reason.
When other major companies do this and know what they are doing, it is a long process that is involved and detailed. Performance reviews take place and under achievers are let go. Remember that scene in office space where they sit in a room and ask "so what do you do here?", that is very basic level management that our company can't even comprehend. Now some of their best workers are gone and many who are left are looking for another job.
This entire situations seems like they are trying to make the company look profitable before a major sale to another investor.
It was nice while it lasted. Everyone better work on their resume and look for something else.