If you don't know CSS and already laid off the person who does, then it's a good way to center text.

I'd be inclined to agree if "text-align: center" weren't already in the page source...

genuine question: do you think all the employees didn't know till today, and is being let go all at the same time?

+1

Maybe this has to do something with search engines, but why ?

All this time that's what I've been thinking too.