The majority of the people getting laid off weren’t lazy slackers, numbnuts, they were some of the smartest, hard working people in the company. They were also tenured which meant The Peacock could replace them with cheaper (but less knowledgeable) workers.
This is corporate America. It doesn’t matter if you work 100 hours a week, drink the kool-aid, and polish the Peacock, when some no talent a-s clown executive looking at a spreadsheet decides it’s your turn to hit the unemployment line, you’ll be gone, just as quickly as the lazy slacker that plays games on their phones, takes three hour lunches, and always finds an excuse not to work. You’re both numbers in the corporate layoff lottery.