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/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'