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Anyone with experience in a large org will hate this because it's a stupid, hamhanded way of forcing people to continually beg for the resources to do their jobs. Leaders think it's brilliant because it relieves them of the need to know what's actually going on in their organization, externalizing their responsibilities.

"Unplug it and see who screams" is not effective systems management.

People aren't rockets.

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I agree and would add that people aren't machines either. The concept of 'fire everyone and rehire who is essential' seems to lack comprehension of human psychology. It seems analogous to 'cheat on everyone and marry the person who stays' in that you are settling for the people who have the least self-respect and/or the least amount of options outside of their current position.

Especially once people stop caring about things actually working and go into CYA mode (stop begging).

"We wrote the memo that we don't have enough peope to check drinking water toxidity, guess leadership is okay with not testing for that anymore"

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