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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aboyd" data-source="post: 4743236" data-attributes="member: 44797">How possible is it that some of the people that are still there are now pissed about the previous layoffs (of their friends) and are doing stuff like this to deliberately sabotage their own company?I ask because I worked for a company that was in a downward spiral, and after the 3rd round of layoffs, the work conditions had deteriorated so much (mostly due to the few remaining people having to do so many jobs) that people got angry and started acting out.  I saw a few people just start stealing stuff on the justification that the company had cut bonuses and such.  I saw people sit on projects on the justification that the amount of work they had was overwhelming.  But the most stunning thing I saw was people who actively "penalized" the company -- usually building something wrong or allowing bugs to creep into the software.Probably really passive-aggressive, but nonetheless it happened.I know you could dismiss my question by saying, "Wow, sounds like that company hired all the evil people!"  However, I think the truth is more that when companies take advantage of a beleaguered work force, at some point those people get actually hurt (emotionally, physically from sleep deprivation or stress or whatever, and so on) and act out.  They're not evil, they're just human.And so I'm wondering, seeing these self-inflicted wounds that WotC keeps fostering, if some people there are not quietly and perhaps maliciously saying yes to stupid ideas (or suggesting them!) with the thinking that the stupid company that laid off their friend deserves it.  Maybe it's not even actively malicious.  I know a lot of employees who "survived" layoffs during the dot-com bust, and many of them simply stopped caring.  If someone made a poor decision, these employees would just shrug and say, "Whatever."  They used to have some care, some spark that would incite them to raise flags and debate poor decisions, and then at some point, they just gave up.If that's WotC now, I almost feel bad for the execs who do not realize that their workforce is no longer covering for them.  So poor leadership flourishes unfettered.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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