The Way of the Long Knife

There is more blood on the floor of the Order today. This time metaphorical. The HR department have been busy shaking out the well-paid, the old and the ones who crossed some moronic bureaucrat many moons ago.

Many honoured brethren are now seeking assassination opportunities elsewhere, in accordance with the teachings of the Ninjitsu on the Way of the Involuntarily Outsourced.

Master Tetorododokishin, the head of the Ninja Change Management Section, tells us that by having fewer ninjas the order will be able to do its job better. But to me that sounds like the time Brother Niguri pasted fortune cookies into the Big Book of Zen Paradoxes.

No amount of platitudes about "lean", "streamlined" and "dead wood" can hide what is going on here. Cost-cutting is the first resort of the talentless.