Queer phrasing!

I happened to read a mail sent to all the employees of a company by its HR/management team asking them to apply for an internal vacancy position. I read the first line which goes...
"We are pleased to announce the following vacancy..."
The more I looked into it, the more queer it turned out to me. Especially the use of *pleased* made it interesting. Was the earlier guy in that position such a whack that he threw the management into a tizzy and they are now *pleased* that he has been successfully sacked?