Why are we all up in arms (all of the sudden)?
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These kind of regular "reorgs" allow top management to avoid accountability for lack of a strategy and measurable success. Cutting the bottom line is a quick fix to make the numbers look better. These are bottom line tactics which provide immediate results and allow leadership to show short term results without having to develop, execute and take accountability for a top line strategy. Its a short term tactic, not a long term strategy... the Mark Hurd playbook.
This is not just any re-org. This is massive firings and layoffs. This is more disruptive than last year, which was already off the charts compared to the prior trend line.
Just heard several Customer Success Managers for North America Cloud are getting their pink slips via FedEx today. Most are remote and older employees. They are getting replaced by college kids in Austin and Burlington. They bring these kids in at $50k base and promise them a $25k comp. They barely get half of their comp. Last year they had an org wide announcement about the changes a month before year end. This year has been crickets. No all hands or announcements.
And it is starting in France, again. Our yearly layoff plan just arrived today...
Which team/department ?
Get used to it. Don't be surprised that you are the last to know or never know about anyghing in this company. Why do you think rumor boards like this is doing such good business?
It's sad that you're being kept in the dark about your future, but at least you can get what little information you can from places like here. In this case, knowledge may not be power, but it is empowerment.
As a newer oracle employee, I do find this almost comical that I'm getting bits and pieces of information from other teams while my manager knows nothing. Not the best way to run a company...it's discouraging
because we would like to know the nature of the reorg before it happens.
Who wants to spend hours anguishing on the gallows when you could know now?
Because we've heard that this reorg is bigger with many more layoffs than usual?