'Uncle Larry’s biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree

By his third failed attempt to log into Oracle’s VPN on Tuesday morning, a decades-long employee of the company started to get a bad feeling.

When Slack stopped responding too, the feeling got worse. Then he checked his email and discovered that he was one of the estimated thousands of Oracle employees who had received a message saying that their services were no longer required.

“Basically it said 'Thank you. Go (expletive) yourself,'” he told The Register.

The Register is not identifying the employee since he fears that publicly discussing his termination could adversely affect a separation package that he has not yet received any information about.

Oracle has not commented on the number of workers it laid off on Tuesday. It declined to comment to The Register on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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