Employee victimized?
Once again the workers have paid the ultimate cost.
My theory is that almost all company failures are due to either bad management or unfair competition, and rarely due to employees. Exceptions include big unions that fight the management all the time like the teamsters in the US.
This is because employees can be purchased, trained or fired at management's discretion. Sounds harsh, doesn't it, but that's how management views them. They are expendable, and there's an inexaustible supply of them. They are parts of a machine. It's the management who runs the machine that makes the most difference. For these people, a company is like a project or adventure. They fail at one, (hopefully) learn something and move on to another. Whether it's a film company, a donut factory or an advertising agency, doesn't make much difference. Such is the cruel world for the so called "employees".
The consumer is an abstract concept. The only thing concrete about him is that he complains a lot. They are otherwise not in the equation at all. It's the "market" that is the big deal, a market to which the company sells. If you think consumers are the same as "market", then you are wrong. Consumers strategically misled at any given time by creative advertisements of a specific product makes a "market" in that time window for that product.
Therefore a company is an investment (to buy equipment, employees, etc), a management (to run the company) and a market (to which the company sells.) So you see it's all about finance and marketing, and a gang of juvenile delinquents having fun playing the game. The people (employees and consumers) are not in it at all.
You or I, the employees or the consumers can cry and curse all you want. Doesn't make a damn bit of difference. If you want to make a difference in any thing, then become a financier, an executive or a marketeer. Do not become an employee. He is nobody.