Just got laid off

I got laid off on Friday along with 3 other sales people.

I had an inexperienced manager come in (AE to CRO story)

he hired 4 people we didn’t need in his first 2 weeks of joining (who are all his personal buddies) and none of the team knew we were hiring, so no one interviewed them and they didn’t go through usual hiring evaluations.

then new CRO realizes oops we don’t have enough money, so lays off 4 people to make room for his buddies. He hired 2 AEs, 1 VP of marketing, 1 director of rev ops. Then fires 3 AEs, 1 whose an investor in the company, and 2 others who have been here for 5 months.

if this was for reduction in force don’t you think firing your 2 new AEs who aren’t ramped makes most sense? Why did no one else get “laid off” we have 2 VPs of marketing now because they didn’t let go of first one.

I managed the SDR team and from day 1 (I have an email) he made it known he thought SDRs were useless and now I’m outta there. Tho I hit my targets and grew the team.

anyways do I have grounds for anything here? I feel like this “lay off” of me and my colleagues is unjust and would like peoples opinion. Right now I’m thinking about getting a lawyer