Thread regarding Devon Energy Corp. layoffs

As long as they run this company like a high school where the cool kids get promoted and the popular kids get the choice units, while the nerdy kids that actually get work done are treated as disposable, this company will never get ahead. At some point during my tenure here the ideology of this company has switched from hire and promote the most talented and brightest to let's hire and promote our friends. If we can promote people to manager levels that have been arrested for public intoxication, while on business trips, and others that have to have their Facebook pages audited by the company to be acceptable - what kind of future can we possibly have? I worry that no matter how well I do my job and in spite of the fact that I have never had a bad review - I will be released for not being popular enough. I have seen several people released recently that were far more proficient than their counterparts but they weren't the cool kids.