Reminds me off a friend who was made to lay off his entire team. Himself included.

He basically got his team in a meeting room, told them that everyone in this room is being fired. People of course were shocked and some shouted at him how he could do such a thing to them. “Again: Everyone, I mean literally everyone in this room is being fired.Understood?”

He rehired half his team soon after for the company he created with his severance package.