pjeMar 31

Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email

https://rollingout.com/2026/03/31/oracle-slashes-30000-jobs-with-a-cold-6/

Oracle slashes 30,000 jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email

Oracle began laying off up to 30,000 employees globally, notifying them via a 6 a.m. email from "Oracle Leadership" with no prior warning from HR or managers.

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Show threaddolphinscorpionMar 31
Unless you're being offered a very good package, any firing email is cold. Let's be honest
Show threadSoftTalkerMar 31
There's no real way to sugar-coat losing your job. I think an email is as good as anything. Ensures everyone gets the same message at the same time.
Show threadWaterluvianMar 31
Whatever you do, do not ever book a 1:1 meeting on a Friday afternoon for Monday morning titled, "The Future."
Show threadthinkingtoilet
I had to let an employee go because he didn't do any work, took forever to respond to chats (in a remote position), and was always late for meetings. I scheduled the 4pm Friday meeting to let him go. He was 15 minutes late.
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Show threadiwontberudeMar 31
Sounds like me on site, ADHD is a bitch, people probably think I don’t anything too.
Show threadWaterluvianMar 31

I've found that there can be a chasm between "what people think I do" and "what I actually do." But also, there can be a chasm between "what I think I do" and "what I actually do."

If the system in which you operate does not attempt to measure this, I think it's worth it for anyone to measure it themselves. We can so easily be overconfident or underconfident. Collect the data and see the kinds of things you've actually been accomplishing over a year.

I'll feel like I'm getting nothing done, and then I look at the year's changelogs and realize I'm actually doing just fine for where I want to be.