The real fun part about this is the consulting company, Boston Consulting, they hired to do the layoff was not given any data to determine who to lay off. They were given name, gender, age, ethnicity, and any registered disabilities. They didnt even speak to department VPs to find out who was necessary. I found this out through some back channels with HR.
I had the highest yearly raring of any of my peers for 3 years in a row, and did work that not a single one of my peers could even hope to understand much less do. I did work several pay grades above my title because no one else knew or had the initiative to handle those projects, especially with the company cutting dev resources. And yet I was laid off while people who don't even know how to open a spreadsheet were retained.