Garg confirmed that he was responsible for the post under an anonymous name. He added, “They were stealing from you and stealing from our customers who pay the bills that pay our bills. “You guys know that at least 250 of the people terminated were working an average of 2 hours a day while clocking 8 hours+ a day in the payroll system?” he said, according to the Daily Mail.

The CEO later took to the professional networking service blind where he ripped the former employees. Garg’s pre-Christmas downsizing comes after the company received a $750 million infusion of cash from investors. The blow was somewhat softened for the terminated employees who will at least receive severance packages an and opportunity to continue receiving their company provided healthcare insurance, although at a higher cost, through COBRA.

Other employees were on vacation and didn’t know they were out of jobs,” The Daily Beast reported. “Staffers who hadn’t been able to attend the last-minute conference were left scrambling to figure out why their devices had stopped working.

Following the announcement, the employees’ computers were automatically shut down.

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