Some of the weasley language you&#x27;d propose cutting is likely there for the people staying at Twitter, not those whom are getting laid off.  E.g.,<p>&gt; &quot;Engineering will be smaller but remain the biggest percentage of the organization&quot;<p>As an Engineer, you don&#x27;t want to hear that corporate is slashing just your team, and that it&#x27;s affects the entire company. You&#x27;re right, it doesn&#x27;t matter to those who were laid off, but it does to the people who aren&#x27;t.<p>&gt; &quot;Thank you all for your trust and understanding here&quot;<p>Same thing. You&#x27;re right that someone who is being laid off doesn&#x27;t care or want to understand. They&#x27;re probably really asking those who are staying on, and losing their colleagues, to understand why those people are leaving and that it isn&#x27;t a statement about a perceived lack of value in the engineering team in general.