Thread regarding University of Phoenix layoffs

It is funny you mention that, because I actually work for one of those banks now, and I will tell you that these management tactics do not take place here. You see, it isn't really about the employees performance in most cases. I had plenty of employees that were very good at their job, but if our director didn't like them or felt like they were what he called an "HR Nightmare", he would start putting the pressure on us managers to get rid of them if he felt like they would go to HR and let them in on things that were taking place in our division EVEN if these employees were justifiably right to to do and great employees. I had several employees that were low performers that took advantage of the company in every single way imaginable, and he wouldn't even consider signing off on a written warning for them because he liked them on a friendship level. For any final termination to be approved, you must have the regional director sign off on it also. Our director had saved an email from the regional director from a prior sign off on a termination from a year or so before and would just copy and paste their approval on every term that he wanted to push through to make it appear like the regional director had signed off on it because he knew there was no way the RD would sign off on firing some of the people he was trying to get rid of. To my knowledge, he is still a director at UOP. In some cases it is about low performance, but in most cases it is how well you have established friendships with leadership there. There were numerous employees that were fired even though they were great employees in general, and there are even more that are still working there, and have very low performance, but because they are liked by management they are allowed to stay.