Involuntary termination...

Did I ever tell you that hate the word lay-offs.. It sounds like Auschwitz to me... I would rather call it Involuntary termination due to indespicable planning of the industrious corporate buttheads.. Why am I so pissed off and why am I talking about lay-offs when this word has long been silently erased from the "Frequently used words" in the valley? You guessed it, some people whom I had known and worked with for the past 5 years were involuntarily terminated yesterday and guess where their jobs are going? You guessed it right again, to my own home country.. How ironical??
I have survived quite a few of these involuntary terminations in my corporate world but this one somehow hit me very close to home. 2/3 of my very close colleagues with whom I have shared my office space over 5 years are leaving me now. I expected something like this to happen sometime in the future. I never expected this to be so fast and so abrupt. Never got a chance to be warned. I feel very sorry for them and I am finding all ways I could to help them out.
How can this capitalistic corporate world be so brutally harsh with unassuming colleagues of mine? Our company had an extremely good quarter this time and have been having really good ones for the past 3 quarters beating analysts expectation in the wall street. No one saw this coming at this time. It threw everyone off-guard. I am slowly learning how harsh this corporate world can be to these unassuming people. I better prepare myself before they pull the carpet underneath me when I am least expecting it.
I can call myself a visionary for the first time in my life. I knew this was coming but did not know when. So I moved to a different group about an year back but was still very closely associated to my previous group which was affected yesterday. So when I heard the news yesterday, I was shell-shocked first but for the first time I patted myself on my back for having made that decision to move. Not that my current postion is forever stable. When I moved to this new job about an year back, there were times, I used to think if I had made a big mistake. But something inside me told me that I made the right decision. Exactly after an year, I see its results. I was actually reminded yesterday by my dear wife that it has been one year since I moved to this new position. I thought to myself how soon the time travels?