It's the dichotomy of, on the one hand publicly - "we are doing you a favor" while surreptitiously doing the opposite privately - that is most offensive.
My initial reaction was: the Company's complete underestimation of the intelligence of the staff to quickly checking myself and realizing...
...we are powerless...it's a dictatorship.
It's one thing for them not to care about anything else but the bottom line...but it's an entirely different proposition for them not to 'respect' our intelligence and treat us with contempt.
Another sad day.
f.