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At the same time though, I don't blame them for being mad. They've lost their job through no fault of their own, the reason they're being laid off are (most commonly anyway, not counting system-wide crises or catastrophes) bad decisions of the higher ups, yet the little guy's taking the fall while the managers get fat bonuses. I get it, supply and demand, the manager is more important and less easy to replace so the company won't punish him, but I also think that the little guy's anger isn't unsubstantiated.
This conversation is becoming more and more relevant with automation and people losing their jobs as a result of it. Is it their fault that the skillset they cultivated is no longer needed? What should they do when their whole field is so reduced in terms of open job positions? Those are big questions I don't have answers to but I wouldn't call the workers "just butthurt", I think there's more nuance to the issue than that.

The anger is understandable, but I wouldn't say its "substantiated", in that I don't think there's necessarily any injustice in a job position going away, and you don't really have a right to it anyway.
That's why I think that these guys fucking around with the lighting like that may well just be some amount of ass-pain.
This is obviously very dependent on what actually happened in this particular scenario. The bosses may well be twats after all.