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One worker said Zoom firing was a "kick in the gut," noting that mortgage firm had recently secured $750 million in new funding.

One of the Better.com employees fired in a now-infamous Zoom call is helping organize a private job fair for the 900 workers laid-off last week.

Three top executives at Better.com have reportedly resigned from the mortgage lender after CEO Vishal Garg received major backlash for awkwardly firing at least 900 employees over Zoom. Additional bizarre communications from Garg have leaked out, such as an email reading: "You are a bunch of DUMB DOLPHINS and…DUMB DOLPHINS get caught in nets and eaten by sharks. SO STOP IT. STOP IT. STOP IT RIGHT NOW. YOU ARE EMBARRASSING ME."

The person delivering the bad news should be as thoughtful as possible in how they conduct themselves and how they treat the people being let go.

WATCH: CEO lays off 900 employees on Zoom call Times are tough for all businesses but is it really bad enough to lay off 900 people?

Christian Chapman told CNN that, after the three-minute call, he started messaging colleagues asking what was happening when his screens went black.

Vishal Garg, the CEO of digital mortgage company Better.com, recently fired more than 900 employees via a single Zoom meeting last week, which is about 15 percent of the company's workforce. Garg later accused "at least 250" staffers of working just two hours a day.

The Better.com CEO who fired 900 via Zoom said his company will be checking up to make sure employees are actually working. Remote work and a delayed return to

"I own the decision to do the layoffs, but in communicating it, I blundered the execution. In doing so, I embarrassed you," Vishal Garg wrote in a letter.

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg reportedly fired 900 employees over a Zoom call, which is bizarre as well as disappointing at the same time. The Indian American CEO has now reacted to the incident.