My company's leaders are complaining that there is this super critical issue that supercedes all other issues at all costs, and to address it, we must hire more people.
My company is simultaneously having layoffs. Not the clear-out-the-dead-wood kind of layoffs, but the we-appologize-for-our-short-sightedness-but-better-you-than-me layoffs. When someone goes, they have support folks bring a cart to the vacated cubicle and strip it to the bare desk, pulling pc, laptop, and phone, and cart it all away. A week or so later, the new person is escorted to the desk, and sits, without computer or phone for 2 weeks until the support folks can cart it all back, reblast it and redo the configurations (programmers have different setups than salesfolks, secretaries, etc). In the mean time, all of the knowledge of the system leaves with the person who got tossed, and head-hunters collect mountains of fees.
You'd think they'd just leave the stuff at the desk, since it's not likely that a salesperson would be seated in a developer's cube. At the very least, reassign the developers to the critical project.
Talk about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.
*sigh*