LAYOFFS: Sub-Zero Rumor-mill not Entirely Rumor

Madison Wisconsin's Capital Times reports today June 2, that Sub-Zero is releasing 27 salaried employees and eliminating 16 open positions.
See the story
We've been following up several tips on this the last few days.  The key point for us, and it turns out for Sub-Zero relates to whether these salaried employees were part of the original April reduction (removing the band aid with a quick fast pull), or if they were a new and unrelated reduction (death by a thousand cuts, shooting prisoners and deserters, blowing up the bridges, retreating in chaos).  We could find nothing to verify the contention that these were new actions, and so did not post here.  Sub-Zero's official position is that these were part of the original reduction, that there was a conscious corporate goal to measure twice and cut once, and having gone though a 6-wave layoff in a past life, I applaud the effort.  If you have evidence to the contrary let us know.

During our investigation of our tips we inadvertently and unfortunately participated in the story for which we were taken to the woodshed by a SZ executive: our probes of SZ had resulted, we were told, in the creation of a new free standing rumor inside the company.

So while we were feeling terrible about this, we found today's (Monday 6/2) Capital Times story in which VP of HR Chuck Verri is quoted in an email to SZ employees:

"As we continue to monitor fluctuations in product demand, and as has occurred in the past, there could be additional adjustments to production............While layoffs are very unpleasant, it is important that we act to manage the business."

Yikes.  If this is the official communication to SZ employees, there's little that ApplianceAdvisor.com can do to make the staff more nervous.

Update June 2:  Wisconsin State Journal reporter Judy Newman characterizes the layoff as a 2nd round:  "Another round of job cuts at" SZ/Wolf.
Update June 2:  Capital Times reporter Lynne Welch quoted Chuck Verri: "It was a general reduction across all departments really as a follow-up to what we had done earlier in April"
Update June 2:  We were assured by SZ on Friday May 30, and Monday June 2 that this is all a single layoff.
So let's summarize:  
     We laid off in the past.
     We are laying off now, and it may or may not be related to the earlier layoff.
     We reserve the right to layoff in the future.
So much for measure twice and cut once.