some are in positions where they have to roll the dice & take what is right in front of them due to their situation
There are 204 engineers who will be in a "position" called unemployment, this will be a "situation"
not of their own making but the making of managers who want to meet their KPIs so as to get a bonus.
It's bad enough for the 204 families (engineers, their partners and their children) knowing the trauma about to hit them is due to some economic ideological edict, but to know that some of your workmates have been assisting - that hurts!!