There’s no break from the tension. I can barely focus at work, and I can’t really rest once I’m home. This could drag on for weeks, maybe months. No one can function anywhere near normal under these circumstances.
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This gradually erodes one's enthusiasm for work, like a long and painful process that ultimately leaves people feeling resigned and utterly defeated.
@a1,
First time?
@a1 As untransparent as this RIF has been, I have seen worse. At least people are getting garden leave and their RSUs are vesting. I have seen RIFs where the day you were informed was the day you were terminated and your pay and benefits stopped. Any unvested stock options or RSU's, even if they were days away, were lost.
But don't expect O to ever preannounce that layoffs are coming, or to confirm just how many were let go once the dust settles.
@an Years ago there was a VP who gave the SUNW group a heads up that a mass layoff was coming. He eventually resigned, possibly under duress. Given the dire job market I'm sure that most middle managers are very concerned about getting the ax themselves, should they leak anything.
@a5 my manager told me, that he was explicitly prohibited to discuss anything about it, even mention the fact that most of our team was laid off. I have never ever seen such lack of transparency, and I worked for several of dodgy sweatshops
wait for your org all-hands, they almost always complete layoff rounds by all-hands.
Just to inform you all: This is exactly how Oracle has done all their previous layoffs: No information at all! One day you suddenly get the message that you are impacted, and not even your manager knows until then, yet still might get the job of telling you the news.
Oracle is a bit of an outlier in this regard? I hope
I'm a manager in EMEA and I haven't been told anything so far. I am not clear from which level managers are being informed of changes in structure/layoffs/redundancies.
Is it known which EMEA countries will be hit in October?
So after this massive layoffs they still tell nothing? Managers to their teams? Totally silence like nothing happened? It’s unbelieveable.
I am surprised regarding the internal communication, and the complete lack thereoff! Never have I seen this lack of respect to a workforce.
I keep hearing things either here, other external websites or through the grapevine. I hope once EMEA is impacted that Oracle is forced to be more informative.