Yeah, employers are some heartless bastards. They laid off a bunch of people in other departments at my work, well over 100 people, but when the let them go, they sited "performance issues" so they didn't have to pay unemployment for anyone.

If they are investing that much money into you, it sounds really promising. Like I told you before, they want to make sure you don't look like Ozzy Osbourne before offering you a job.