Comment by toomuchtodo

Sometimes better than random layoffs because someone needed to juice the stock price.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-layoffs-cut-jobs-exce... (“A major Alphabet investor said the company should cut even more jobs and address 'excessive' pay in the wake of mass layoffs”)

(Edit: retracted an unnecessarily snarky statement)

(I admit Congress needs to get its shit together)