Yesterday, Monday when everyone arrived all talk was about the layoffs on Friday and how inappropriately they were handled by all involved. After about 4 hours I was in the process of sending a message to a co-worker regarding some problems they were having on the shop floor and saw to my dismay a <disabled> indicator next to a friend of mine, meaning he had just been laid off as well. This hit home because he had quite a few years with the company as both a direct employee and a contract engineer. He and I both went to orientation on the same day, the 16th of December 2011. Scary things happening right now.