[ivanmontillam]

I was in a company where I was part of the middle management, and my upper management boss knew that we had to lay off some people in the company (mainly sales).

My boss asked me to select one person to be laid off, as we have been chosen to be reduced by a single headcount (sales saw much blood). I picked our newest guy; our ROI per person was a bit long, so it was an easy choice.

The upper management bargained about keeping some extraordinary people, but I was not in that meeting. I was in another discussion on votes about top performers, and that one got contentious as some personal preferences (favouritism) arose between managers.

[scruple]

> I was in another discussion on votes about top performers

Good grief, that sounds horrible.