This is a lovely post that highlights the human cost of layoffs. It's nice to see a team supporting each other during challenging times (this also begs the question, why lay off creatives?): https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/creative-we-stand-francisco-g-delgadillo/
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Some of these comments show that y'all had no idea what this group actually did, and who they worked with (or even which building they worked out of). I think that was part of the problem with the new head of marketing too! Now she wants groups to handle their own marketing (think iPhone videos), so if you think the materials look bad now, well...
Indeed, be it known that a LOT of that carefully crafted creative team were deadweight. Utter deadweight on the third floor of OPL.
Have you ever seen Oracle’s advertising? Bout as Plain Jane as it gets. Oracle changed its logo or corporate colors lately? Nope.
Indeed, these “creatives” will do just fine as overpaid as agency guys or creative deadweight at some other software company.
Good riddance, I say. The lot of them.
This thread is an example of Oracle being in the midst...
No it isn't.
this also begs the question, why lay off creatives?
I wouldn't use the term creatives with marketing unless it is to highlight how creatively they can
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lie to the customer and sell them vapor products
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concoct something that no one wants, hypes the hell out of it, and forces the company to break the bank to develop it
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blames everyone but themselves when the above backfires
They aren't creative enough otherwise to claw themselves out of a wet paper bag if their lives depended on it.
For anyone trying to access the link in the OP, LinkedIn is actually down as of 3:20PM on 5/28
wow, that is a messy way to let a group of people go.
"Because they're useless"
LOL, that's harsh. At least one team felt otherwise tho -- EMEA creatives also had a massive layoff, but the internal customers rebelled and Oracle ended up "un-laying" them off within a matter of days
“this also begs the question, why lay off creatives?”
Because they’re useless. Pure cost center and they haven’t offered anything truly creative. That’s what a director told me.