Sounds like the telecommunications company that RIF'd me last year. We were told well ahead of time that the RIFs would NOT be based on skillsets or technical merit.

Hmmm...If I wanted a SUCCESSFUL company, wouldn't I want to KEEP the people who had technical merit, even if they cost a little bit more than the less-qualified people? Naw, dump people based on cost so the CEOs can line their pockets a bit more. After all, CEOs can hardly survive on several million dollars per year, right? And, their favorite line for justifying CEO pay is that they have to pay millions of dollars per year to retain the "best and brightest"...That must not apply to worker-bees.