[EvertonDiehard]

I used to work at a publicly listed company where older Heads of Dept earmarked for lay offs had younger and less experienced managers parachuted in to become their supervisors. This was a slap in the face intended to coerce the older HODs to resign. Predictably, these managers in their late 40s and 50s had to suck it up till they could take no more and quit, or were eventually laid off.