In a month, my company went from bragging about a record $5b in profits to laying people off because “times are tough and we need to tighten our belts”

The combined salaries and benefits of the people they laid off was probably around 20m. That's .4% of last years profits. Motherfuckers threw a bunch of people out in the cold in order to boost the bottom line by .4%. Fuck billionaires.