Very unethical practices - Facilities Coordinator Viasat Employee Review

Here's my perspective. Let me start by saying I was one of the 800 in the layoff. Mark D was originally touting about being a disruptor in the industry. We were told books to read about being a disruptor, then Elon disrupted the whole industry. After that the comments about being a disruptor ceased and all we heard was Mark D complaining about space junk and the number of sats that Elon was launching. Probably a necessary conversation but not a good one from a publicity point of view. Then we merged with Inmarsat. We launched a new satellite at the first of 2023 and the antenna didn't deploy. We were late getting it into orbit and that contributed to Viasat deciding to use the high thrust route to get it into its orbital position sooner. That decision is probably what led to the failure. After that Inmarsat launched a satellite that failed, so now Viasat has two pieces of space junk in orbit. Is this poetic justice? Viasat's system is based on a distribution of smaller gateways. By having a multitude of these, they can achieve tremendous reliability except for the single point of failure, which is the satellite itself. At this point they have a large cash investment in the distributed gateways across the USA with no satellite. For the layoff, I was surprised at the number of technical leaders that were included in this. I can understand a reduction in force as finances dictate this. What I don't understand is laying off many of the subject matter experts. This speaks poorly of the long term goals of the company. This says they are mainly concerned with short term cashflow. Maybe this is survival mode but it does make them to work for,