Caterpillar Inc. CAT 0.19% shares are up more than 5 percent this week after the company slashed its full-year guidance and announced yet another round of job cuts. Caterpillar is now expecting to earn $3.55 per share in 2016 compared to previous guidance of $3.70.

Doug Kass, president of Seabreeze Partners Management, tweeted this week that he’s had enough of Caterpillar CEO Douglas Oberhelman.

Caterpillar has said that it plans to shut down or consolidate 20 of its plants by the end of 2018. The company has already cut roughly 5,300 jobs and will now be adding on to its 10,000 total planned layoffs. Caterpillar has struggled to stay afloat in one of the most difficult oil & gas environments in recent history, and Oberhelman said this week that he doesn’t expect the industry to improve anytime soon.

“We’re cautious as we enter the second half of the year,” Oberhelman said. “We’re not expecting…

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