>After a year of constant paranoia and unemployment/underemployment I finally got a good job this spring, moved to a new state and left a lot of things behind for this new opportunity
>Not the best paying thing, but enough to gradually work myself up, a good place with people I like and doing good work
>Gradually paying off the credit card debt accrued during unemployment
>Been here about 8 months now
>Company is growing in leaps and bounds
>My department had a meeting yesterday wherein our director outlined some structuring plans to help us function with much more people (like project leads, mentoring, small leadership opportunities, better categorization of roles so that we can focus our individual specialties where we excel).
>Morale is high
>Friday, go out to grab a late lunch/early dinner
>Come back, everyone is dour. Five talented people were laid off (2 from my dept).

Should I be nervous? Supposedly, executive claims this is very isolated. I know that of the five, three were amazingly good at everything and one was with the company from the start nearly 10 years ago...

Does this sound like a case of the company growing too fast, pivoting direction, or perhaps they are cutting out members with higher salaries?