Only silver lining for CB&I employees now is that McDermott wants to have a functional on-shore group and they should try to preserve the workers bees. Otherwise, if CB&I let people go at the current pace, there will not be an onshore group left. At the same time, if they continue with the current group of Directors, Department Directors and Project Managers on the same path of corruption, nepotism, and no-integrity, what McDermott acquired could be hollow. So McDermott better be proactive in cleaning the crooks out of CB&I before it turns into a hollow group.
What @QQofgGG-1mwh said. This is the only way I see this working out. The cleanup of upper management levels is of crucial importance if we are to walk out of this mess still standing. Not really sure it'll happen, though.