Cabela's may continue to cut payroll to minimize the bleeding, but BP has no authority or input until the deal is finalized. BP folks may wonder the stores and the corporate hallways, but until some money changes hands, they are just spectators. If the grim reaper shows up, he'll be a familiar face, not someone from BP. It'll be one of the same 2-faced liars that we've have known all along that will be inviting you and your co-workers to a "quick meeting".
Really well put by @OdONsrM-1suk. The empty chairs that already exists are not BP's doing. And until BP deal is finalized, everything that happens is still Cabela's doing.