Which seems incredibly stupid.
Like why not have the call with everyone, then immediately follow up with who's fired (so people don't sit around questioning if they're gone)
I think it's better than having the call with everyone (even though the whole situation still sucks, and the timing is terrible)
They really couldn't wait 1 month? It's pretty tough to find a job between now and Jan 1st
Like, you're basically paid to suck it up.
Usually the issue is a long delay between saying people will be laid off, and laying them off, but in this case the delay could have been minimal.
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The use of the word unlucky also made it extra insulting.
They're not unlucky, his company made bad moves. Even if the market changed, it was on his company to build in resiliency.
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And for the record, the way I saw this was a TikTok of an employee recording the call before he even said the word fired, so I assume most people already knew what was up.
But based on the placement of (imo justified) profanity, it wasn't known that the call was exclusive to the fired.
So in a way they probably felt like they had just been fired by receiving a poisoned zoom link, not even the call that it lead to, if that makes sense.