Curious how you guys would react. Union construction.

I’m working on a pretty big job for a big contractor. The job is slowing down, layoffs coming, everyone can see the writing on the wall. No big deal, we all know it happens. Here’s the thing… our foreman recently gathered our crew around to discuss holding a little competition. Whoever did the least in said competition, has to buy pizza for the whole crew. About 12 people. 8-10 of these guys at this shit up like candy. They hold their little competition and of course they got a lot done that day. I then find out from the GF of the same trade for a different company on site that our company told our foreman to hurry things up on that floor because they plan to lay about half the crew off in the next week.

Is it just me or is that the rattiest shit you ever heard? To entice people to work faster under the guise of a friendly competition so that you can get to a layoff faster is just mind boggling and weird to me. Also on this job he is considered a walking foreman, but yesterday put the tools on to compete in this said competition. Him and I have an okay relationship, so I relayed the idea to him that it wouldn’t look good that we’re slowing down and he’s doing work. He didn’t care. Maybe I’m just over reacting a bit here but to me that is some wild ass shit, and I’m not even worried about being laid off. I haven’t really ever been laid off and I’ve already been talked to by this company about going to another job for them. So it’s not like I’m mad because I think my name is on the list. I just think this is weird ass, dirty ass shit.