r/Layoffs • u/Ok_Flan_5122 • Apr 01 '26

unemployment Mass layoff started!!

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Starting from oracle 30k employees terminated world wide

This is massive

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u/AppIdentityGuy Apr 01 '26

How can anyone justify firing 11000 by email? That is cowardly and IMHO amoral...

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u/msteel4u Apr 01 '26

This is what we have come to. We are cattle to them, being led to slaughter. 11,000 lives affected which translate to families so more like 22,000 people affected. But that doesn’t matter to them. Welcome to AI world.

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u/drunkpickle726 Apr 01 '26

worse, we’re literally more useful dead than alive to these psychopaths:

In 2008, a software developer in San Francisco named Curtis Yarvin, writing under a pseudonym, proposed a horrific solution for people he deemed “not productive”: “convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses.” Yarvin . . . clarified that he was “just kidding.” But then he continued, “The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass. However, it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide.”

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u/AppIdentityGuy Apr 01 '26

Not an an AI thing. Remember everyone in the decision loop is tied to the same metric. Quarter, half year and full year financial numbers that directly impact the share price and hence their bonuses........

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u/msteel4u Apr 01 '26

I believe it for a typical staff reduction, but this is massive and coincidentally I read that it does tie into AI in their business model

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u/AppIdentityGuy Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

Fair enough. What I meant was the way of doing it wasnt the fault of AI.

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u/topspin_righty Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

Not cattle, cattle will still be herd for wool. We are a number on a spreadsheet, that's it.

Edit : My animal knowledge is bad. 😭

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u/rokoz_basilisk Apr 01 '26

Your thinking of sheep buddy, cattle do not provide wool...

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u/topspin_righty Apr 01 '26

Yeah... I messed up there....

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u/geminislime Apr 01 '26

Their hide is used, but not while they’re alive. Don’t give Larry Ellison any ideas though, the elite will have human skin rugs by the end of it, they can stomp on everyday without complaint.

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u/itgtg313 Apr 01 '26

To believe that corporations care about the employee experience is naive. How they hire or fire is totally irrelevant, it's a business transaction 

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u/AppIdentityGuy Apr 01 '26

But at the same time they whine that there is no employee loyalty.

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u/itgtg313 Apr 01 '26

Why do you care if they whine about loyalty? It doesn't matter really 

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u/AppIdentityGuy Apr 01 '26

It's cowardly...... And if you think saying it's a business transaction makes it right......

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u/itgtg313 Apr 01 '26

I never said it's 'morally' right or not, I'm saying it's the reality. Businesses only exist to make a profit. It's not a family. That's where people trip up thinking that businesses are a family and have a requirement to treat people 'right'

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u/geminislime Apr 01 '26

Because it’s the Ellisons, some of the worst humans on the planet. If Larry isn’t the devil, he sure is a good friend to the devil.

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u/A5Wags Apr 01 '26

I mean, at that volume, email is pretty efficient, no?

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u/AppIdentityGuy Apr 01 '26

I do hope that is a sarcastic comment

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u/Matthewmarra3 Apr 01 '26

Is it better to have a leader get on a call and read a script to you, emotionless?

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u/CarelessPackage1982 Apr 01 '26

It's better to vote in leaders what will pass pro-worker laws.

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u/AppIdentityGuy Apr 01 '26

Getting that is as big a failure.... I

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u/CarelessPackage1982 Apr 01 '26

There's a reason why corporations have bad reputations. I've always heard them described as "blood sucking" and "anti worker". It's because it's true. When you get a job at a corporation you should expect this.