This is more than a little trauma dumping, but maybe it will help someone who reads this make better decisions than i was able to do:

When the covid money ran out in 2023, my non profit hospital chain decided to make our purchasing jobs worse by claiming we all were not doing enough despite having better pricing results and OTD for over a decade. They did not lay people off, they just denigrated us over new metrics that did not exist before. As people quit for other jobs due to being treated like shit, their former positions were not reopened, people were forcibly shunted to other reduced teams with no experience, so did legitimately worse and the cycle got worse. They actually tried to get us to use AI to "help us", despite not setting up shit for it or bothering to train anyone on this unproven "better" way.  Our teams were reduced to almost half what they were during covid.

As people left, the real objective was shown, a team had the last two people left moved off and team fully outsourced. The remote work infrastructure build haphazardly during covid allowed the hospital to do this. That outsourced team's manager, still in the US, had twice as many people than during covid working 10-12 hour days for less than half as much money from her budget. I know because i asked one of them. That teams total cost savings was still less than what the previous team did, but all the manager cared about was their payroll because the hospital made that a key metric, despite being two orders of magnitude less than their pricing increases.

It got so bad that I quit without a job lined up. I knew the writing on the wall when that manager started hanging around me trying to get me to help with their cost savings, despite having nothing to do with that manager in our structure and not being experienced in their assigned market segments. This escalated to the point a higher up multiple levels above me decided to micromanage me because they "did the job years ago". I actually went to HR and found out later that HR was telling leadership my complaints, turns out my shitty state has absolutely no worker protections in this regard. 

I still do not understand why they went through all of this theatrics, but that is having a moral basis in seeing the immoral. It was all an excuse to make my job difficult enough to quit on my own, they got what they wanted in the end. I do not view this as a loss as I was being driven to the point my unstifled reaction would have landed me in prison for a long time. They can have their desired outcome, my current job is better in general.

I mean, the purchasing division was losing even more money because the outsourced teams were so bad at it, and blaming the people who were left, while claiming good metrics on payroll "savings". In a just world these people would have been fired, but the higher ups were a clique going back longer than my lifespan, they essentially were the hospital. The top most brass were too busy playing the real estate game with hospital money to notice. In all this, i learned that in the corporate world, regardless of profit or non profit, it is just politics. Perception is reality. Rules dont mean shit if the enforcer of the rules had the offendor as the best man at their wedding when i was in diapers.

I no longer fear hell, the demons are here.