Every company has staff that can easily be let go in an engineering firm without harming productivity:
- GenZ Boss and a Mini
- Itty Bitties and a Bob
- 5'3 and an Attitude
- Try not to cringe: impossible
- all others who TikTok on the job, no matter if they're posting or just watching
- "I'm a People Person" persons
- DEI officers and their commissars
- DEI hires
In short: anyone who is proudly wasting company time and resources and / or is hired / kept because of reasons unrelated to the core function of the business, especially political reasons, signaling, fear of discrimination lawsuits etc.
Anyone who's more proud of the name of the company they work for than their actual work.
Anyone who speaks like a career politician.
Anyone who demands something from others they don't do themselves.
Anyone who would NOT come in to help the company on a Sunday for a true, actual, once in a decade major emergency at their workplace, unless they are sick, have small children or family members that truly require care, have important family obligations (that means births, weddings, funerals, 70th birthdays of their parents and up, not a BBQ at aunties) or are out of town.
Anyone involved in not avoiding that once in a decade emergency.