On Tuesday, Twitter’s recently returned CEO Jack Dorsey sent a letter to all employees, notifying them that 336 jobs would be cut—around eight percent of the company’s workforce.

Shortly thereafter, at 4:35am, Dorsey confirmed the news with the following tweet:

Made some tough but necessary decisions that enable Twitter to move with greater focus and reinvest in our growth. http://t.co/BWd7EiGAF2 — Jack (@jack) October 13, 2015

Dorsey linked to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing of the letter he sent his employees, which read, "We are moving forward with a restructuring of our workforce so we can put our company on a stronger path to grow. E-mails like this are usually riddled with corporate speak so I'm going to give it to you straight.”

Dorsey pushed through with two paragraphs of corporate speak before writing, "So we have made an extremely tough decision: we plan to part ways with up to 336 people from across the company. We are doing this with the utmost respect for each and every person. Twitter will go to great lengths to take care of each individual by providing generous exit packages and help finding a new job.”

Mercifully, the letter seems shorter and more direct than Satya Nadella’s 2014 e-mails to Microsoft staff informing them that thousands could be laid off over the following six excruciating months. Twitter seems to have taken the opposite plan of action, choosing to lay off its employees quickly. Maybe too quickly. Bart Teeuwisse, a senior software engineer at the company, tweeted that he found out that he was being laid off by seeing the news of Twitter’s culling and then being removed from Twitter’s corporate network.

I've been impacted by $TWTR's layoffs. This is how I found out this morning. pic.twitter.com/MbjFwYLcU2 — Bart Teeuwisse (@bartt) October 13, 2015

In a follow-up tweet, Teeuwisse clarified that he worked from home and HR called him, but the call went to voicemail. Apparently, HR decided to remove him from the corporate network despite the lack of person-to-person contact.

Twitter declined to comment but pointed only to Dorsey’s tweet and his official letter.

Of course, there were rumors late last week that massive Twitter layoffs were coming. The company had 4,100 employees last quarter, more than double the workforce it had just before its IPO in 2013, according to Re/code. Clearly the decision to lay off employees is investor-friendly—the company’s shares, which were down about 16 percent for the year, were up about 3.5 percent as of this writing.