[Porsche-O-Phile]

Too true - unfortunately I know of too many companies who chopped their most experienced people when they started to freak over declining revenues last year. It didn't matter who was the most productive, most valuable or most experienced or gave them the most flexibility in showing breadth of experience to go after new work in non-core areas, if you were one of the highest-paid (which meant most experienced in most cases) you were the one that got the axe.

Far, far too common of a story. And VERY short-sighted thinking.

It underscores the difference between smart companies run by business people and stupid companies run by bean counters.