[phendrenad2]

What makes you think they're really the bottom?

[tgma]

What makes you think otherwise, statistically?

[phendrenad2]

There isn't any reason to believe that companies can or even want to identify the lowest performers, especially when doing mass headcount reduction.

[tgma]

There isn't any reason to believe...

There's no reason to believe the sky is blue.

...even want to identify...

Short of cuts of an entire division, sounds like fairy tales. Now, they might want to claim they have or have not done so; that's a different issue.

[phendrenad2]

What are you even talking about?

[tgma]

I am simply suggesting your assertion is self-evidently false.

[phendrenad2]

By that logic, so is yours. We should talk to the World's Records people to see if we set a record for biggest waste of time.