Anyone ever thought about this?

I am in a midlevel management position for a large company and one strategic objective for the next year is to cut costs. Dramatically. That means that lots of high paying jobs are going away and not coming back. I've worked very hard to put together a highly skilled and talented team who can react quickly and handle just about anything that comes up. It's frustrating to not get recognition for it and instead have to deal with idealistic pinheads in upper management who set policy. I have a large ethical problem with sending highly technical jobs overseas. What will those who lose their high tech careers in the US do? I have discussed moving into lower tech with several colleagues; retail, real estate, establishing a p*rn or online gambling website. And at some point our local economy has got to suffer. The jobs/money is going overseas, not to be spent in the US anymore. I think there will be a catastrophic crash in real estate.

Internal office politics is time consuming and a large part of daily overhead. What happened to the days when we had real work to do satisfying customer needs or building products? Justifying current plans, fighting off hairbrained ideas from higher management, showing how we already line up against corporate initiatives... While alignment is important, in our company it takes up so much time of highly paid people I wonder whether there's much return on the investment.