Perhaps a closer analogy would be that the new boss rolled in and threw away 80% of the fire extinguishers.
Whether that will spell disaster when there's a fire depends on whether the building had too many fire extinguishers to begin with and whether the boss can buy new, better fire extinguishers to replace some of them before there's a fire.
> Perhaps a closer analogy would be that the new boss rolled in and threw away 80% of the fire extinguishers.
If we're deep-diving it'd be closer to say that he rolled in and sold 80% of the stuff, largely sight-unseen, and if a fire breaks out he'll find out how much of that stuff was fire extinguishers.
