{"id":250,"date":"2005-01-19T00:41:21","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T05:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=250"},"modified":"2005-01-18T12:42:22","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T17:42:22","slug":"telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Telegram!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, after Oracle manages to oust the chairman of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplesoft.com\/corp\/en\/public_index.jsp\">PeopleSoft<\/a> and turn the rest of the board into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/peoplesoft\/customer.html\">bunch of sellouts<\/a>, they issue layoffs to about 5,000 people.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think anyone who wasn&#8217;t directly making money on this deal had <em><strong>any<\/strong><\/em> delusions that Oracle is simply out to destroy its competitor, and show little mercy in the resulting layoffs.  And so far, they&#8217;re following through with that whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kron4.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=2813248\">lack-of-compassion-or-diplomacy thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSAN FRANCISCO (KRON) &#8212;  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&#8217; homes <em>via delivery services FedEx and UPS<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How nice.  Let&#8217;s not actually have face to face conversations with our to-be-booted employees.  Just wait &#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice way to tell your workers they&#8217;re fired: FedEx the pinkslip to their house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}