Of course, there's a huge gulf of possibility, and he definitely creates the impression that those 900 people were fired for being bad employee... But I'm awful

Of course, there's a huge gulf of possibility, and he definitely creates the impression that those 900 people were fired for being bad employee... But I'm awfully concerned that you're so willing to take this guy at face value, uncritically. You know what else he doesn't say? The median, mean, & mode of his workforce's productivity (hours/day)? Also, how have those productivity numbers changed, over time? What if the mortgage market is slowing, and his company is ASSIGNING LESS WORK to those 250-900 employees than it did, previously? That means his market is drying up quickly, and his company may be at risk... Better not let the media know about that! What if the median/average productivity of his entire workforce is only 2.5 hours/day, because it's so poorly managed that those people aren't being given useful tasks to do? That would mean management is incompetent, and we DEFinitely better not let the media know about that!