When you lay off too many people....

Tech companies are making record profits, but layoffs are still spreading. The reason is not always survival. In many cases, companies are cutting thousands of workers so they can pour even more money into AI. Oracle, Meta, Cloudflare, Intel, Pinterest, and Atlassian have all made major cuts. Some workers lost huge amounts of unvested stock. Others woke up to layoff emails at 4 a.m. Many were then labeled “low performers” or treated like they were standing in the way of progress. Now the backlash is getting harder to ignore. Laid-off engineers are sharing company systems online. Workers are building tools to track layoffs. Some employees are even feeding bad data into AI systems, leaking files, or openly trying to sabotage the companies that replaced them. This video looks at how the trust between workers and employers is falling apart. For years, people gave companies their time, skill, and loyalty in return for stability and a real career. But when companies can erase that relationship overnight, workers stop feeling loyal too. The result is a corporate culture built around AI, executives, and shareholders, with everyone else wondering why they should care.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Tech Layoffs
0:36 - Cuts & Hubris
9:24 - Blowback
13:44 - Sabotage