Company knows they laid off too many last summer. Outlook was bleak and they did what they thought would help. But it was a very short term fix; business is back and now we are struggling with no coverage and not enough managers or colleagues to keep up. So now we paid all that severance and are hiring back some of these people. Makes sense, right?
Almost nothing makes sense here anymore. This is just one in a series of ironies in this company, right?