no, what happened is that they can't "just let you go" unless you really fuck up or you had multiple bad performance reviews. my last performance review was good. there were two people up this year for a promotion, me or someone else and I've been waiting longer. with that one person promoted, they can restructure the team how they want. the problem is that if i'm there, HR is going to ask why i was passed over with 5 straight years of an almost perfect performance rating. i'm the least experienced and it's easiest to move me out of the team, plus my manager has never liked me and moving me out of my team "resets" that clock and allows them to do what they've talked about and making the team a more "seniority" based team