<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ch4s3</author><text>So they had:&lt;p&gt;lay-offs 2 years ago&lt;p&gt;Switched tech stacks 11 months ago to among other things be able to hire more devs&lt;p&gt;Acquired Pry for $90 million 6 months ago&lt;p&gt;Were tossing out long standing customers 4 months ago&lt;p&gt;and now they&amp;#x27;re having lay-offs again.&lt;p&gt;Quite the ride...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brex layoffs</title><url>https://www.brex.com/journal/message-from-pedro</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mind-blight</author><text>This honestly seems like an example of how to handle layoffs well. After the repeated messes of Better, the non-layoff layoffs at Meta, and a bunch of smaller examples over the last year and a half, it&amp;#x27;s actually nice to see them handled well.&lt;p&gt;They always suck, but being transparent, ripping the band-aid off, and giving the people laid off as much support as possible is the way to go. They&amp;#x27;re also far enough from the holidays that people can still job search, but close enough that most people in tech could eat a few weeks of savings to take an extended holiday. Don&amp;#x27;t know if that was deliberate, but it seems well timed</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brex layoffs</title><url>https://www.brex.com/journal/message-from-pedro</url></story>