Barclays Capital had to fire approximately 20,000 people over a multi-week period post-Lehman acquisition, employing them temporarily and then laying them off in waves (described as 'The Bobs from Office Space' pattern of mass firings every Friday)
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“I made my bread there by explaining during the every Friday like The Bobs from Office Space would come in and fire another thousand people because it's a big job to fire 20,000 people right so uh I would reinv for my job every Friday”
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