We've had recent layoffs and firings "for performance" that actually have to do with senior management monitoring people's social media accounts and getting rid of the ones whose political beliefs the managers personally disagree with. A lot of this is people just being horrible because, in the Age of Trump, they can. Although not everything MITRE does is related to the DoD, there's definitely a DoD-driven culture here, and it's only getting worse. Finally, this practice of getting rid of people who are about to retire, or pushing people out when mild disabilities are discovered, is the opposite of what MITRE used to stand for.