[onetimemanytime]

The bottom line is the getting fired is, almost always, bad news. Sure delivery matters but if he was announcing a raise, no one would have questioned the manner. So unless he had some major financial aid for the laid off...

[financetechbro]

Not sure if it’s fair to compare a raise announcement to layoffs. Raise is good news and doesn’t need to be handled as carefully as a 10% workforce layoff