They hired us. Then they blamed us for existing.

Salesforce hired aggressively during the pandemic. When the market turned, leadership stood up and said they needed to "right-size" the organisation. We made those hires because you told us to grow. You set the targets. You gave the bonuses for hitting them. And then when the strategy didn't work, the people who were hired — not the people who decided to hire them — bore the cost. I joined in 2021 because they made an aggressive offer. Eighteen months later I was redundant. My manager was genuine about it. The system that produced my redundancy was not. Nobody at the level where those decisions were made was affected. Several took retention bonuses to stay and manage the transition. The risk was socialised onto the people with the least power. It always is.