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 threadtroyvitMar 31
I think the headline is not the best headline, but what it meant by "cold" is that there was no advance warning. So like cold-calling somebody, but to fire them, and an email instead.
Show threadWalterBright

The problem with advance warning is the employee who decides to sabotage in revenge.

For example, a company I knew in the 80s had a wholly owned subsidiary. It was losing money, so it was decided to close the subsidiary. Management decided that they'd be nice guys, and notified the subsidiary that it would be closed in 90 days and then everyone would be laid off.

90 days later, management arrived to close the facility. It was empty, stripped clean of everything. Not a lick of work was done in the 90 days, and nobody was there. There were reports that trucks had come to the loading dock, and took everything they could carry.

The cost of that led to the collapse of the company.

Mar 31 at 4:19pmWeb
Show threadlljk_kennedyMar 31
I find it hard to blame the workers in this story... it's a poor indictment of the management if they only checked in 3 months later and got this surprise - no wonder the company collapsed!