Suboptimal Management at National Semiconductor

They’ve gone completely insane!  They’re laying off Bob Pease!

“… a disaster of biblical proportions… real wrath of God type stuff…  Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies!  Rivers and seas boiling!  Forty years of darkness!  Earthquakes!  Volcanoes!  The dead rising from the grave!  Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”
— Ghostbusters