This is close to "blame the victims". If they could have easily changed job, they probably would have, but there are regions where the job market is extremely tense, so many people are "locked" with their employer. That's why they are so distressed and can go to extreme acts, pretty much like farmers snowed under with debts with no way out.
That's a whole class of problems you just don't get when you work, say, in IT and you can change job in a couple of days.
"Assume that a coin is fair, i.e., has an equal probability of coming up heads or tails when flipped. I flip it ninety-nine times and get heads each time. What are the odds of my getting tails on my next throw? 2
Dr. John refers to the question as trivial and gives the mathematically correct answer of one half. Fat Tony calls Dr. John a sucker and says, “no more than 1 percent, of course … the coin gotta be loaded.”"
The point being, what are the odds of getting an artifact of statistics precisely when management is harrassing employees to get rid of them from payroll?
That's a whole class of problems you just don't get when you work, say, in IT and you can change job in a couple of days.