A friend of mine worked for a company that thought it would be a good idea to have everyone share the pain. The way they did it however was quite horrible. Every single person was invited into a room and handed identical envelopes. Once you opened the envelope, you found out whether you were fired or not, kind of like a reverse lottery. Of course, no one explained it very well, so everyone thought they were fired and there were a lot of bad feelings among both groups.