[_DeadFred_]

Even in Reagan's yuppie cocaine fueled 1980s America, layouts around the holidays were considered a very bad, and only done when a company was desperate. It was a guaranteed social scarlet letter for executives. In post 2010 'tech bro' America, management does it just for the LOLs. This isn't normal, even for capitalist America.

The average tech CEO today is a much greater villian daily than the nationally reviled 'corporate raiders' of that time were a couple of times a year. I don't know WTF happened to this country.