So, after Oracle manages to oust the chairman of PeopleSoft and turn the rest of the board into a bunch of sellouts, they issue layoffs to about 5,000 people.
I don’t think anyone who wasn’t directly making money on this deal had any delusions that Oracle is simply out to destroy its competitor, and show little mercy in the resulting layoffs. And so far, they’re following through with that whole lack-of-compassion-or-diplomacy thing:
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Oracle Corp. began informing some 5,000 workers that they had lost their jobs Saturday, forgoing pink slips handed out at the company and instead sending out notices to workers’ homes via delivery services FedEx and UPS.
How nice. Let’s not actually have face to face conversations with our to-be-booted employees. Just wait ’till they get home and let FedEx do our HR duties for us. The MBA who dreamed this up must really be patting himself on the back.