Dang, that's harsh, Jacob! Sounds almost identical to something my wife experienced while working for Bank of America Corporate... the unspoken term for it is "managed attrition" in which long-time employees are demoralized into leaving, thereby saving the company from paying certain benefits that are lower for new hires. Although, they mostly wanted her gone for being really good at her job... and they didn't want to pay the substantial bonuses their system was allowing her to make...
Librarians need to eat, to. As do musicians. And artists. And arborists.
Whereas I'm not big into liberal claptrap, there is a growing sensation that more and more places are "hostile work environments."