Oracle, Please Tell Me Your Kidding
How to win friends and influence people? Not the Oracle way. I realize when mergers and buy-outs happen, cut backs in staff need to occur. There has to be lots of duplicate jobs and its just plain economies of scale. But, you also have to maintain an air of professionalism and proper decorum when that happens. After all, we are talking about others being out of work, and its never a pleasant experience.
The latest from Oracle just leaves me asking, please tell me your kidding? Oracle appears to be adding insult to injury in its merger with PeopleSoft--taking the unusual step of notifying workers of their termination by sending pinks slips via express mail to their homes.
As earlier reported, shipments to thousands of PeopleSoft employees across the country are expected over the weekend, according to sources close to the company. Those spared pink slips will get packages too--containing new Oracle employment contracts. That makes it a nail-biting weekend for many PeopleSoft employees, who number more than 11,000 worldwide. Oracle may cut as many as 6,000 jobs, according to its own earlier estimates. It plans to announce the official number Friday.
Needless to say, I doubt Oracle will ever appear on any lists for being a great place to work. It would be a shock. Even if I didn’t get a pink slip this weekend, I’d start looking for another job. Would you work for a company (and please tell me why) that offers this kind of respect and courtesy to its employees?