> Real callous firings are when you wake up to your entire company no longer existing, your pension gone and corporate raiders walking off with billions What's

> Real callous firings are when you wake up to your entire company no longer existing, your pension gone and corporate raiders walking off with billions What's the difference. The same mentality makes both happen. If Google was financially in dire straits, what you said would be exactly what they were doing. In a sense, this is worse - Google is not in financial straits. Its gigantic. Its ginormous revenue only slowed a bit. The entire purpose of this stampede was to appease hedge funds and investors by propping up the stock price. Employees and users be damned.