You would also be angry if they wrote "we fired our 400 worst employees because we decided they're not worth their salaries" which also happens to be exactly tr

You would also be angry if they wrote "we fired our 400 worst employees because we decided they're not worth their salaries" which also happens to be exactly true. Up there with anti-whiteboard-interview screeds, the critique-the-tone-of-a-layoff-post comment is a mainstay of the hacker news comment thread: as tiresome as it is uninteresting.