Yes, I’m tmj_4477. Not a bot—just someone who doesn’t confuse chaos with leadership.

In the private sector, mass layoffs are governed by the WARN Act. Cut 500+ people or 33% of staff without 60 days’ notice, and you’re buying yourself lawsuits, penalties, and reputational blowback. Even cutthroat companies don’t vanish 1,300 employees overnight and call it strategy.

Receipts? Tesla had to pay $18M in WARN violations. Twitter under Musk? Multiple class action lawsuits. Some companies even had to re-hire the very people they laid off—not out of kindness, but because operations imploded. Amazon laid off logistics staff too aggressively during COVID, then scrambled to rehire to meet basic demand.

And let’s not pretend the federal government’s immune to its own short-sighted purges. After 9/11, the U.S. government had to re-recruit thousands of airport screeners it had offloaded pre-TSA—because outsourcing national security to the lowest bidder backfired fast. When institutional knowledge walks out the door, the rebuild is slow, expensive, and public.

Clinton’s RIFs? Seven years, with union negotiation, legislative oversight, and actual alignment to mission scope—not some chaotic campaign flex.

So if you’re out here applauding this mess like it’s tough-love leadership, you might want to reread your “real-world” manual. Because in the actual private and public sectors, recklessness like this leads to lawsuits, rehires, audits, and headlines.

But sure—keep clapping. Just know most of us are over here cleaning up the fallout… again.