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When NBC Universal announced significant layoffs and a $750 million slashing of its operating expenses yesterday, it was clear they meant business, but we imagined it would take the lurching corporate behemoth quite some time to implement its various plans to save money. An operative within the rapidly depopulating NBC Uni empire reports that the company is much more organizationally nimble that we could have imagined:

As part of the company-wide cost cutting measures recently instituted by NBCU 2.0, the administration has decided to save money (and enhance the "G.E. goes green!" corporate branding) by shutting down the power grid and computer networks on the Universal Studios lot for a few minutes every Friday.

Starting today at about noon.

Attached is a photo of the blackout from my office in the Black Tower.

Network was down for about 30 mins. Most of us thought we were kicked off the system as individuals ... there was a lot of packing up of private belongings, waiting for security to show up and escort us off the lot...

Eventually, though, the lights did come back on, and our tipster was able to unpack his cardboard box and get back to work. But his office might not be safe from the layoffs just yet—we had the Defamer Photo Lab do an image enhancement on the blackout photo, the results of which reveal that he and his co-workers might have come much closer to downsizing doom that even they'd imagined. Click here to see what we found.

Previously: Inside The Layoffs 2.0 Town Hall Meeting: NBC's Must See Pinkslip TV [Defamer]