I'm sorry, did he... tell everyone who didn't want to be "hardcore" to quit and then THEY DID?

LOL. Simply LMAO.

@stephstephking I mean leaving was already its own reward. Then he added the 💰bonus and for those staying a sock on the jaw. It’s math!
@troydarling "Would you like to get in this lifeboat? I'll throw in this bag of money as a life preserver"
@stephstephking exactly! From WaPo, “A former employee said. "There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.”