You hate to think of folks losing their jobs, but in consolation to those unhappy workers, they are now free to find much, much better places to work:
Anheuser-Busch is set to lay off nearly 400 workers at its corporate offices in the wake of slumping sales that accelerated on April 1, when Bud Light partnered with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. ...
The restructuring, the outlet reported, will eliminate corporate and marketing roles at major US offices, including in St. Louis, New York, and Los Angeles.
"Marketing roles," eh? You mean the company is laying off its advertising squad after what is arguably the most disastrous promotional campaign in modern U.S. corporate history?
I don't think we have to read too much into that to figure it out. Now, granted, the company says the layoffs "will affect 'less than 2%' of its workforce." But of course anytime a company lays off workers, something not-great is going on, whether it's external or internal factors.
In this case it's both: A brutal, unrelenting boycott precipitated by really, really bad business decisions from inside the company. Somebody's got to go over that.
Company CEO Brendan Whitworth, on the other hand, is optimistic: The layoffs "will enable our teams to focus on what we do best — brewing great beer for everyone," he said.
That's fine — except if nobody's buying it!
