Experienced technical staff that left in frustration? In this economy, with mouths to feed and bills to pay? It's traditional at bec to trash people that were let go and it probably makes the ones left feel a little more secure to call them deadwood but it's more likely that a lot of the experienced technical staff were escorted out the door by security not long after the integration was finalized. Experienced is expensive compared to somebody that meets the minimum experience and education of the job description. Since associates are interchangeable it makes sense to the parent company to fire experienced and hire cheap, and it's easier to keep newbie expectations low long term when they don't know any better. Making profit by slashing costs like this is lower risk than actually progressing and innovating, at least until the brand name gets so tainted that market share drops. Low risk is what shareholders like and by the time the market becomes a real problem the folks that made these decisions will have moved on.
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