"Defense is arguing how Orange was facing an existential crisis at the time."

This sounds like something out of a bad movie. Corporations are people, too!

Could you please stop creating accounts for every comment you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but should have some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. There are legit uses for throwaways, just not routinely.

Lots more explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Unless they start killing people, then - it's complicated.

Firing 2000 < Firing 20k