There is a reason you are being down voted. When read against the parent comment your comments as some sort of an assumption about the guy and that if the company has more than 5 employees the star contributors must fired, a highly mediocre rule-by-bureaucracy large corporate manager must be bought in at the point.
1. a damaging or derogatory remark or criticism; slander: casting aspersions on a campaign rival.
2. the act of slandering; vilification; defamation; calumniation; derogation: Such vehement aspersions cannot be ignored.
And you? ;-)