[b_t_s]

yea things are crazy now. We're in war mode but nobody knows why. We've been reliably profitable for a decade. And yet we're doing super high risk cost reduction projects that have significant risk of burning down the entire business and have already destroyed what used to be a very skilled and mature engineering team. I get the impression that's a fairly typical story now.

[zbentley]

Have private equity types been seen entering the building?

[ang_cire]

The executives would never deign to enter the offices that house our unwashed technical worker selves.