Sorry, you're right, I guess I should have been more specific.
"but in hindsight, they didn't bother trying to come up with a game plan for us because they knew it'd be over sooner than later."
In this statement, "they" did not refer to my immediate GM, but to higher levels of management that would set out the generic development plan and strategic goals for any given role in the company.
Your manager would not have known this 'master plan', they were just lazy.
Awhile back it was suggested on this site that the RSS position was merely created to see the rest of the stores through their wSAP conversion, with the idea that wSAP is able to replace those that work hard on inventory management. It may be true, it may not be, but I tend to believe it. When I completed my PA&D with my new manager this year, there was no clear development plan for the RSS role. At the time it was explained away as "because it's so new" but in hindsight, they didn't bother trying to come up with a game plan for us because they knew it'd be over sooner than later. Perhaps there is more vision than we give them credit for.
Bingo...this company could not find a watermelon on the 4th of July.
The fact we are eliminating a job we created 4 months ago says more about the vision of our leadership than it does about America.