Unemployment Datapoint of the Day

Big guy in work clothes chatting in the breakfast room:

Yeh, when business started to slow down, I laid off my least valuable people, the ones I could most do without. Later on, I had to let the better ones go. But the weakest ones got out early and so they found new jobs. The better ones are still hurting. I would have done them a favor by laying them off earlier.

Don't know what business, but there are a lot of utility trucks in the parking lot.