I'm sorry to have to see this. When you do a reorganisation or cutting, you either do it quick and dirty (as in "don't come Monday"), or you do it slow and "clean" (by clean,I mean voluntary redundancies, retraining, lots of consultation, timetables, newsletters, etc. etc. all done over a few years.)
The one thing you don't do is a "slow and dirty" change - which is what QF appears to be doing because it maximises the pain.