Today David Carr writes about how the Journal News (a suburban Westchester newspaper) essentially laid off all 288 of its staff and invited them to apply for the for the 218 or so jobs that remained after "restructuring." This is super nasty! But it's secretly and not-secretly going on all over. For instance, Johnson & Johnson recently did the same thing when it consolidated business units: they laid off a couple dozen senior vice presidents and invited them all to apply for the remaining, much-fewer jobs. This is obviously the best possible way to treat employees.