Thread regarding Xerox Corp. layoffs

I've observed some comments on this site eluding to the lack of employee loyalty, as if things would be better if employees didn't post negative comments here. I worked for Xerox in engineering for 30 years. In the 80's and the 90's it was a great place to work. Competitive wages, bonuses and awards for a job well done, and recognition for accomplishments for the engineering and design staff. Designers and engineers were on salary, and worked long hours on aggressive schedules to design high end printers. We worked hard and made a lot of money for the company. The layoffs started around 2000. We still continued to work long hours, to meet deadlines and schedules. Eventually, raises became a joke and promotions were unheard of except to a select few. In 2008, the Xerox HCL partnership was established. We had VRIFS and IRIFS on a semi annual basis. We were training HCL people to engineer the Xerox way. The layoffs continued yearly. At first it was belt tightening with the under performers and the less than model employees being let go, but eventually top quality engineers, research people, expert xerographers and design staff were no longer safe from layoff. Raises were minimal at best. In 2012, the pension plan was frozen and in early 2013 the design staff was converted from salary to hourly. Management blamed the Feds on the conversion, stating that a 4 year degree was required to be on salary according to the Feds. That was only one criteria at the time. If you made more tha 25K or worked in a creative environment, you were exempt fron the 4 year degree rule. The design staff mostly believed that the reason for the change was that management wanted to separate the designers from the engineers so that it would make it easy to lay off the design staff when HCL came up to speed. That never happened. Even with training, the HCL partnership was a disaster and HCL hired former Xerox employees, that had been laid off, to help complete their tasks. Upper management had been stuffing their pockets from the efforts of engineering for years. The first chance they had to cheap out engineering, they jumped on it. If management wasn't loyal to me, then I had no intention of being loyal to them. I was never one to take abuse from anyone. I found better employment in 2013 and didn't let the door hit me on my a-- on the way out. I've never been happier! Loyalty is a two way street.