I'll try to be short because I'm texting from my phone.
The company I work for suffered a huge hit past year because of the increasing energy price in Europe. We are a hight tech R&D company, and we run multiple labs and a clean room, which consumes a lot of electricity. Also, labor is very specialized (physicists, engineers, scientists, etc.), which drives the cost even higher.
With the war in Ukraine and the rising energy price, the company had to shut down some research lines and lay over a significant number of employees. It's was a hard decision, but seeing the numbers, there was no alternatives, it's was either that or bankruptcy. My research was discontinued, and I've seen very bright colleagues being let go, and it was distressful. I was spared and allocated to a different project.
Fast forward to last week. I went to visit one of the labs. This lab happens to be on the same building where the CEO office is (even though it's not the headquarter, but is very close to his house), so the CEO was walking me and showing the place.
Now the bizarre part: after the job cuts, one of the labs was decommissioned and became empty, and the CEO had the brilliant idea to repurpose it to display his collection of racing bikes. He had multiple of these tour-de-France-like bicycles on display in the office, where earlier we had people who lost their job. We are talking EUR 10k per bike, multiples of them. Some bought very recently, I assume never used.
It felt so weird. Knowing that earlier we had hard working scientists at that place, and now it has become a shrine for his luxury toys. There is something definitely wrong here.