On: eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the Bay Area

[jack9]

> eBay is worth $37 billion today

> extremely profitable corporation

Yup, layoffs look like a classic pump and dump to fiddle with the numbers for a sale.

[hshehehjdjdjd → jack9]

300 positions is not going to significantly alter ebay’s profitability. It seems more likely to me that this is an occasion to drop a group of low performers all at once, or to make a certain job family redundant.