Calm Blue Ocean Sadly, increasing shareholder dividends is easily accomplished by laying off worker - even if it means rehiring/retraining later. It reminds me of the numbers game played by my company & the sales reps every quarter. They would place massive orders at the end of each quarter. Some wouldn't even give a defined order but would tell me to "put in whatever until it equals X amount of product". It didn't matter because the client would simply return them early the next quarter for a refund (before making payment.) The clients understood & played the game. As a lowly order entry person even I could see that made no sense!Eventually, the SEC caught on to the numbers shuffling (10+ years after I joined the company) & the company was taken to task. That's when the company started round after round of large layoffs. The CEO of the division did have to resign. He who bragged of a garage with a turntable in his garage for 5 cars so no one had to back out. He left with a 9 million dollar parachute package plus who knows what in dividends & other compensation. No consolation and abject disgust from employees whose livelihoods  were destroyed. Those remaining lived on tenterhooks knowing the layoffs would continue. We were told to work smarter, not harder & that efficiencies would make up for the lost workers. By then an exempt employee, I was expected to work extra long hours. I received the axe 12/99 when 20% of the remaining work force was let go.

Calm Blue Ocean Sadly, increasing shareholder dividends is easily accomplished by laying off worker - even if it means rehiring/retraining later. It reminds me of the numbers game played by my company & the sales reps every quarter. They would place massive orders at the end of each quarter. Some wouldn't even give a defined order but would tell me to "put in whatever until it equals X amount of product". It didn't matter because the client would simply return them early the next quarter for a refund (before making payment.) The clients understood & played the game. As a lowly order entry person even I could see that made no sense!Eventually, the SEC caught on to the numbers shuffling (10+ years after I joined the company) & the company was taken to task. That's when the company started round after round of large layoffs. The CEO of the division did have to resign. He who bragged of a garage with a turntable in his garage for 5 cars so no one had to back out. He left with a 9 million dollar parachute package plus who knows what in dividends & other compensation. No consolation and abject disgust from employees whose livelihoods  were destroyed. Those remaining lived on tenterhooks knowing the layoffs would continue. We were told to work smarter, not harder & that efficiencies would make up for the lost workers. By then an exempt employee, I was expected to work extra long hours. I received the axe 12/99 when 20% of the remaining work force was let go.

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