It is, isn't it?!!!   The schadenfreude is perfectly sweet.   It's been a long time coming.  I remember the outsourcing and downsizing that began the day Reagan took office.   I remember all the rhetoric about "competition" and "free market."   It was the rise of the MBAs, people who didn't have to know anything specific about the field into which they were hired, but they could bring the best collective rapine strategies to any organization, like purchasing valuable businesses and/or corporations and feeding off of them and their employees like the vampires they were - looting retirement accounts, firing people just days before they qualified for full retirement, etc.