‘I knew it was going to be bad but I didn’t think it was going to be this bad,’

firings, reassignments, the like-- further down the ladder than expected? error in this article posted by the guardian: “cannot be trusted to implemented”

none of this is particularly outside the scope of predictability. and i’m just being facetious now, but ‘shell-shocked’ is out-dated, the term is p.t.s.d. (might be a rabbit hole worth exploring if the why is of interest)