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   The company didn't want the mass firings to impact their share price so they basically locked all the employees up for the day until their PR department could make the announcement and brief the media on their own terms. So they prevented this entire high-rise building full of people from having contact with the outside world after they had been told they were likely to be fired that day.

   This is how corporations have always been. Capitalism is just evil.

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     I've seen a lot of incredible descriptions over past few months of the layoffs going on in tech and how awful they are.

     All of them are exactly the way I saw it done at a giant corporate insurance company in the early 2000s when I was a temp.

     They called every employee into an auditorium, told them all that a percent of people were being fired. Sent them back to their desks to wait for the rest of the day in a coms blackout to hear who, then sent home that day with boxes to carry their stuff.

     Aral Balkan repeated this.