So I think before we can get outraged we need to know what areas got laid off and what areas they are hiring for, rebalancing your workforce isn't necessarily a bad thing, although the way they handled it might've been done poorly.
I mean you can't exactly take Linda whose been in HR for 10 years or Frank whose a team lead in accounting and suddenly turn them into Sr. ML engineers.
True, but my impression is that large scale layoffs don't tend to be well targeted. It is almost impossible for them to be well targeted, just because of the needs for secrecy driving decisions into places far removed from day to day operations.
Inevitably the new hires won't be the same roles, but plenty of them would fit the same resumes. :facepalm
In class warfare it is a poor choice to give the wealth class this benefit of a doubt.
If their seemingly poor decisions—and to a laid off worker these were indeed poor decisions—were not made of incompetence, to a worker it is better to assume they were made out of class interest. Or as Marx’s razor goes:
> Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by class interest.
In this case you have no evidence to even hint that the people being rehired won’t fill up positions lost during the mass layoffs. If you are a worker, it serves you better to assume the mass layoffs were done with the sole purpose to enrich the shareholders at the cost of the business, and assume that the rehiring is evidence to the fact that this poor decisions collaterally affected the health of the business, and by extension, the value for their shareholder.
You're right comrade the scales have fallen from my eyes and I see clearly now there is only the noble honest upright workers of the world and the evil scheming capitalists, (also the kulaks that we will need to go after eventually).
How could I have not seen this before we are engaged in a war against the bourgeoisie and must recognize it as such all things in the world from the operations of the market to international politics are driven entirely by the rich waging war on the poor and nothing but.
Come unite fellow dog walkers, and baristas, rally to the cause underappreciated poets and artists you have nothing to lose but your chains, let us rise up in violence and consent no more to this explotation.
After all it was the capitalists who declared that "he who does not work shall not eat" it is the capitalists that prevent free and abundant healthcare from flowing to everyone, it is the capitalists that are the cause of greed and scarcity in society, let us dismantle their systems of oppression, the state, the church, the telecommunications corporations, the railroads companies, let us dismantle them all, for only then will we truly have abundance and plenty for all!
I mean you can't exactly take Linda whose been in HR for 10 years or Frank whose a team lead in accounting and suddenly turn them into Sr. ML engineers.