Secure jobs are often achieved by speciality that are hard to replace or depth of knowledge that takes a lot of money to replace the position.
Ironically, position like this suffer from going up in ladder to upper management level as they are highly sophisticated. Company will only let this happens given there is replacement for his position.
Because of exceptional performance and profit to company, I was considered a danger to my manager, but there was no such thing as laid off.
I think this is a bs reason if people think they were laid off for.
Because manager's request to lay off someone significant requires senior manager or general manager's approval and prepared by HR, IT, and security.
If their senior or general manager knows, which they would if you are a great deal, does not let it happen.
Most ironic thing I have seen and felt is when there is promotion and off season salary raise during cost reduction and head count reduction. I still do not understand fully, but my guess is that such company does this have some intuition, and laying off people or cost reduction does not always mean company does not have money.
What is yall's thought?