Our company was bought out and some of the staff were retained/brought over to the new company. I think the point was for us to teach the employees of the new company how to do our jobs and then make us leave voluntarily so they don't have to fire us and be responsible for unemployment:
They handed most of our job duties over to their existing employees and micromanaged the rest, leaving us with nothing to do every day. So of course almost everybody quit and found other jobs.
Buddy of mine who still works there told me he was asked in writing by his supervisor what he was working on. The answer he was probably looking for was “Nothing, since you took over all my duties”, but he made up some BS answer about was working on studying industry standard practices. His boss followed up with another email asking, “What exactly does that mean?”
They're clearly setting him up for an extra push out the door since he's proven harder to get rid of than the rest of us. But he tells me he is refusing to leave until he either gets a job that pays more than the $70k he's making, or they fire him, the latter of which seems pretty inevitable.
I don't know if my guy is stubborn and delusional, or some kind of proletariat martyr for the cause.