The corporate equivalent of chopping off your head to save weight.....
Have a pea....

When I was working for a large IT company many moons ago I receieved an email informing me that the annual technical excellence conference due in a month or so hadn't had enough nominations, and needed more. This was followed later the same day by another email stating that the staff at the company in question were it's best asset and they wished to do all they could to retain talent.

These were made laughable following less than 10 days behind a round of involuntary redundancies, in which one of the most technically gifted people I have ever worked with, who had single handedly saved the project I was on more than once, had been given his marching orders. This was despite severe opposition from anyone immediately connected to him, including his line manager at the time.

Company in question has continued to de-skill it's workforce at a frightening pace in the name of cost savings, whilst at the same time wondering why projects are slipping and customer satisfaction is dropping......
(repooc, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 10:42, Reply)